Pseudocode Soliloquy

please don't run from it :)

PRINT “Welcome to a hypothetical existence”

As sand drifts through the chronograph

I dwell on this fact:

I’m terrified of the Beauty.

IF I speak first

THEN I run the risk of losing the one I adore

ELSE I won’t

Remaining alone,

As life’s algorithm dictates

WHILE A=perfection, fear, the Beauty

DO Worship, cower in fear of A

And it loops.

INPUT Paranoia

INPUT Optimism

IF Paranoia > Optimism THEN

PRINT “The boy suffers from” Paranoia

IF Paranoia < Optimism THEN

PRINT “This is the boy’s rarity!”

IF Paranoia = Optimism THEN

INPUT 90s Love songs.

ENDIF.

Nowadays I walk barren walk

Under turgid sky

FOR she is not mine.

FOR I am stricken with unhappiness.

ENDFOR

And here’s the most complicated procedure:

LET J = timidity, adorer, the boy

DO UNTIL J = A

J = J/J*A

F5 descends, allowing the black data entry screen

To protrude through the editor.

The value is entered:

 

*LOGIC ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*RUNTIME ERROR*

*RUNTIME ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*RUNTIME ERROR*

*RUNTIME ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*RUNTIME ERROR*

*RUNTIME ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*SYNTAX ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

*RUNTIME ERROR*

*RUNTIME ERROR*

*LOGIC ERROR*

 

The errors filling my screen is a screensaver of sorts,

Except it never goes away.

It does not obey a simple CTRL+Z command.

I walk away leaving

The smouldering gateway.

But IF we are to be THEN we will

As she leaks petrol

As he sweats petroleum

As they bleed pollution.

 

END IF

END

 

Reviews

[vindictivesunshine]

I can just see the gateway...lmao. But this is truly an untapped style of writing; at least i've never seen it used. The structure actually accentuates the intent. I don't think there will ever be another love poem quite like this one. Having some sense of the language made it that much better to take in especially the second time. An overload of errors, but i guess it was meant for emphasis. All in all....wow.....pretty damn good work

[jacob erin-cilberto]

very interesting piece...definitely a current love poem, in that computer sense.

Print---pause, logic, print again...

delete. she won't love me.

[Jonhoi Vaughn]

I must say this... With writers like you, language, love creativity and just maybe humanity all have a new hope. This is the true nature of a pioneer. To integrate, to try and err on brilliance till it is achieved! What an achievement!

[Emily B]

imaginative use of langauge. the format intensifies the effect. amazing stuff.

[luke312]

As a fellow programmer I do care and without a doubt it is one of the most interesting thing i have read truly a unique way of expression except i can imaging some people unable to understand it because of the way it was written.

I will be looking out for you in the future