song of a computer room (In memoriam Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
i.
ether, ether, I enter
a place of nots and haves
syntax burning
encrypted near the bitblast tango
ii.
whomever in a fog
hyper-referential stacks learning their progeny
centrifugal remains of truncation
currencies fresh and neat
iii.
jacket required to data entry
tied refrains are ticking now, friends
sons of bar-coded anomalies
their funereal longing classified
iv.
spheres of attitude launch dicta
a last goodbye at the input-output wharf
where we could start to transgress
a minor key bungled files
v.
centrum of ziggurats murmurs erratum
done by the bandwidth
to glide near synch frames response
flames of timeout.
vi.
border epiphanies ameliorate drag
sighs of power down
uninterrupted message handlers
revive the tokens
vii.
lost tribunals
remain in place, like ether
in that my velvet heart
should find a curious syncopation, waves
viii.
on the gulf of simulacrum
behind purple empires
a hidden synopsis emerges
then evaporates with the egyptian middle
ix.
behind minor emphasis
in the humid elm groves
procedures returned to begging empty
times chewed their clocks
x.
fragments under close ennui
in her own empty barometers: pressure accounts
just for the record are we iso-attitudinal
sharp in every respect of banal
xi.
commendations whispers and flight
word views ensconced before vanity
the kingdom of syntactical options and career paths
burned into a telephonic discount
xii.
now and then like flies
firmament drippings for most reservations
windows of opaque financial retrofit
microcoded for posterity
xiii.
flying small, cardboard soliloquy
bent down and around organizations
apollo considered for screen salvation
in the last days, turgid redress
xiv.
seances return to procedural reservations
a canceled check of mental parking
drumming fingers in a carnival of cacophonies
back to attention.
xv.
remembrance, defilement, proposals scatter.
heard a tune by the xerox behemoth:
codes, lurid codes dancing their fright
carrier detection, system interrupts
xvi.
responses:variable:elliptical
enigmatic subsets of grounded nature
bird songs feed microchips
retreat
xvii.
harbingers of remain in place
sunset brings grey addresses
turned away from departmental latches
stranded in luxury
xviii.
familial envelope of progress oh
and so many retrofits to engage in
like so many senses burnt greek
in binary choruses -1
xix.
again in silent rounds of async
duplex duplicated today
heart of this brazen machine
graphic interfaces snapping about.
xx.
that lost atlantis recovered its code segment
strangers of data quarters
bitmapped standards in moroccan attire
ornate simplicity
xxi.
back to the looping seas, then, team
smarter than artificial intelligence
ingrained in object orients
dim sums of assembly calls.
xxii.
when ands nors lands xors
concatenation of illuminated algorithms
shifted back to table releases
daring to approach mnemonic frontiers
xxiii.
let us bend a millisecond for swaps
dirty file pointers tables shaved of translations
the very micro-life of it
here now in the last iteration
xxiv.
on machine frenzies to bargain
corners clean and static
capacitors remarkably uniform
in a spirit of 1 giga VAC
xxv.
snarl of hiss-processors, lame-routined
in a moment we shall begin boolean
trumpets and products,
men and cybers.
xxvi.
analogs buried in schubertian lieder
mozartian rhythmic precision,
banal sound-mass tunnels
of the last persecuted dissonance
xxvii.
cretan epics stuffed into diskette jackets
in the last revolve of plainspeak
orwell in the coffee grounds,
xanax showers forecast.
xxviii.
smart rendering of drip reversal
accounts entered into solitary stoppers
carpet shreds discounted likewise
another piece of cake anyone?
xxix.
again in minor prototypes
brought a matrix organization to bear
behind the plexiglass rumors
treading in referential boggles
xxx.
disposal refrains at the front-end
applications become loose and watery
enigmatic points of thunder,
retrofitting bulbs.
xxxi.
say for hours the loop ran
as a cartoon nightmare
the video refresh rate is glorious
a stamp of snarling data glued us.
xxxii.
synopsis, revolt, put away scenes
breath of fresh air not
extension of memory
parameters refreshed, arguments null
xxxiii.
umbrella philosophies rehearsed
brightened newness
game show epiphanies
muted and then pastries
xxxiv.
carpets do not end this nation
back into the data center like observe:
these are suffocating times
everybody back to your file folders.
xxxv.
bing goes a resource deposit
snarled mainframes govern the quick refresh
timid comes a time friends
adjust your schedules.
xxxvi.
fonts parade for managed stops
carry a bit left logical
then a blurting error handler
holiday season, roast duck.
xxxvii.
that they were at a junction
like shopping for a shaved instruction set
bereft of full response tones
charming in looping ennui
xxxviii.
open systems integrate babble and froth
type it loosely into screen echo
duplex reversed in pixel alliance
generous on the exponent.
xxxix.
pump a bus to reply address
in the short message format
in a busy unanswerable mirth of requests
stopping by the object oasis.