Dave Christensen sent me the following prose. After ingestion and many hours I folded it into a poem.
Friends and Computers:
For some really stupid reasons we file
some away forever; yet a few eventually make it out of the bin and
recycle back. A few might be in a police file, and there are some who
probably should be in the X files. There are those who can play our
hearts like a keyboard and whisper all types of digitized sweet nothings
to brighten our screens. Other times we search for the right passwords
to bring back those we have defaulted, trying everything we can to open
them back up to us again. Those that we inadvertently cut might later
feel like pasting us....and also think about putting a boot-up our @*#!
Real special ones know just how to gently defrag us. On occasion we turn
ourselves into fine-tuned engines and search for just the right one to
surf through the rest of our life together with. Yet so many times we
somehow never let get downloaded the right programs to upgrade us. Then
there is God, Who knows us all without ever having to use google. Who
can processes trillions of requests - then answer them all in the
twinkling of an eye, sending his Spirit to virus scan our hearts in
order to restore our hard driven souls - reinstalling purpose as He
Casts His Net. He then leaves it entirely up to us if we want to be
deleted out of his Facebook of life or not... but would rather have us
all His best friends forever.
Mr KKBB
***
And this is what came out the other end...
An Ode; To the Few
Seasons of men are filed
and reviled
reasons for that which they lack;
'Tis treason to assume
that a few in their gloom
can't recycle themselves from their bins and back.
A few
might be logged in police piles,
and some who belong in the X files.
There are those who can play our hearts like a keyboard,
typing with whispers in digitized dreams
to sweeten our screens
Ice scream!
A few
are searching for passwords
with swords to bring the defaulted
and exalted.
Trying in pain
to reach and to teach
opening wounds up again,
in vein.
A few
by mistake
we've cut up like cake.
And in place of a hand
(just for good measure and with way too much pleasure)
we've offered a swift boot to the head.
Instead.
A few
of the silent know how to coerce
and gently defrag us.
No cuss.
No fuss.
A few
are brighter than most!
Outstanding alone and tall as a post!
Winking and shining, tugging her boats from out of the bleak...
upon shores of rocks
designed for the weak.
A house of light....
Is He.
Knowing us inside and out.
Without google, or frugle, or poodles with noodles, processing trillions and squillions of rants
twinkling His eye from out of the skies
scanning our hearts
and restoring the hard
driven souls from our wants
and desires.
Installing the wires
again and again
in the rain.
Not a few
but for all!
His net stretching wide to catch the Fall;
The deleted, deflated, fragmented, placated, the Faces with and without.
Booking the lives of our time.
Sublime!
So from out of the bin
all's forgiven
He's risen!
Lending us time
to climb
back again
with renewal
of a greater precision.
***
Thursday, 21 October 2010
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4 comments:
Here is my purse, Moneypenny, And still I am yet thy debtor. Your magical talents; even the memory of your company, now lost, overpays all that I could ever do...
Forever,
KKBB
MMP. Can I post this on markusurealious/windpoet's page on facebook?
kkbb
A timeless collaboration of like minds. It would be a grave insult to etch this duet upon postage stamps or to float lyrical behind the queen's bust in pink ink, simply because it is priceless. Bravo!
I'm sorry, everything you splurt on your page is great until this poem. I'm sorry, you're as deep as a muddy puddle. What are you getting at exactly? A cure for insomnia? Step it up a notch why don't you. I wish your poem/masterpiece inspired some kind of emotion, like anger or rage, but it doesn't. Just general malaise and indifference. Your last name must GRAY
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