I've heard a transmission
breaking through normal radio broadcasts.
Always the same message,
roughly the same length,
but always at different tunings,
different times,
different formats.
Always pushing through the edge of silence,
a dream intruding on the waking hours.
Finally I was able to record it.
Distant music,
a skipping needle,
bursts of static,
a voice,
likely human.
I swear it’s repeating permutations of the phrase
"no worries"
but as I listen more and more-