"The machine waits for you too, the tubing, the ancestral mezzo mump transformer interpreter translator of your self in birth form."
This quote is how people lose their personality in society, and just become part of the machine. The machine of capitalism of manufacturing, producing, selling, and buying. It calls everyone, and silently directs them to become part of the machine.

"We run parallel lives, someone says.
Parallels of exile
Parallels of desire boiling underwater."

This quote is about how people live their lives without showing their feelings with others or without interacting with others. People live in solitude, deeply wanting to feel but too involved with completeing their lives working towards success priorities are now in success in stead of interaction and people live in exile.