I Seek the Nerves Under Your Skin is a wearable audio performance which uses the intense physical activity of sprinting to alter the state of mind of a person listening to a poem. Running hard causes their state of mind to echo the intense emotions of the poet who is performing the poem. Author Keywords Art, Interaction, Poetry, Running, Wearable ACM Classification Keywords H.5.5 Sound and Music Computing General Terms Experimentation, Human Factors