industrial hum
I was awoken this morning at 6:30 am not by my alarm but by what I can only describe as an “industrial hum.” It wasn’t very loud, it was probably coming from a garbage truck blocks away and the decibel level was quite low, but the pitch, the hum, was tearing my ear drums apart. It wasn’t the deep timbre and throttle of the engine, I could hear that as well and that rumble was soothing by comparison, but this higher, sustained humming was making me crazy. It would pause for moments, in between compacting loads of trash I figure, and I could start to fall back asleep, but then it ran again and again and I turned my fan on to try and drown out the noise but our ears are clever, you know. My ears still picked out the frequency that was shoving needles into my brain.
3 years ago • Notes