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free verse
Fragmentation
: Lines by estory

Lines
And lines
And lines of text

Dialogue, dictation,
Facts and figures,
Instructions, information,
Quotes and quotations

Copied
And copied
And copied into facsimiles

Facsimiles of conversations
Taken out of context,
Conversation

Lines
And lines
Across pieces of paper

Like parallelograms
Within parallelograms
Of concepts, perceptions,
Descriptions of conceptions,

Conclusions escaping
In between the lines
In between

Lines and lines and lines of calculations
Embedded in endless lines of computer code
In endless lines of computer code
In endless lines

And lines
And lines of messages
Exchanged instantaneously
In the stratospheres of the Ethernet

Author Notes
I had some fun with the mechanical, computerized format of this, a framework of the emotionless, mechanized production of language. It made for some different musics in the language, something new that I was going for. The poem's theme of course is the vapid, emptiness of contemporary electronic communication, the derivative feel of it, that undermines the meaning and leaves only the interesting patterns of the language itself. estory

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