BINARY'S DIVORCE

09 01 14

1.

The bugs in my insipid drive
veer me into uncharted dabblings
in the linguistic quirks of mortality

I defer like a protege of
confirmation's undulating Pythagoras
to the subjectivity of numerology
now that every word I write
sheds a definition on contact
with the page evaporating into what
must now be a generic sigh upon
the psychologically dehydrated drag
of a journey to the ivory tower
reprimanding my quixotic cogitations

Passing for a window is
the monitor my strapped imagination
formulates into the omnipresence
of your portrait's ceding embodiment

0.

I resort to an ability to reconcile
legibility and omnitude
for the sake of restoration's impregnation of
our dissipating correspondence
yet I'm irritated by the rashy bristle
of the fear of an estrangement accelerated
by the automatic masses of generic sighs
I unspool like cursors on testosterone
in the vicinity of the syncretic
incarnations of your context

No longer am I confident I can
distinguish growth from virus
nor can I lay claim to the engineering
tools to canal the non-existence splitting
the potential that immortalizes integers

I will beg you if I must
not to lobby for a reincarnation in flesh

Author's Note

Reviews

[TL Boehm]

I'm irritated by the rashy bristle
of the fear of an estrangement accelerated
by the automatic masses of generic sighs

even couched by a series of 1's and 0s - fear is inescapable.
I also took the generic sighs as that which happens when peeps don't "Get" us. We pour into our writing as an extension of ourselves only to receive those polite little sighs...

[kublakhan27]

So glad you enjoyed this one TL, your interpretations are pretty spot-on...many thanks.

[Lydia Shutter]

Is internet love nothing more than a mathematical theorem? Would Pythagoras be able to seduce an internet hottie? I believe so! What is real and what is fantasy on the internet? Difficult to determine sometimes, isn’t it? Clear, consistent, and oh so coherent, your words are orchestrated to perfection! Your choice of vocabulary is stellar. Wonderful work, Steve. Lydi**

[kublakhan27]

Thanks so much for the awesome review my friend, you pretty much nailed most of the things that were going through my mind as I was writing this...it was not an easy one to write, trust me...it was done with a head cold that I'm just starting to shake off now, and could barely hold the pen sometimes cuz of the chills I had haha So glad you enjoyed it Lydi, your support means the world :)

[Lydia Shutter]

Hope you got rid of that cold, Steve. Feel better.

[kublakhan27]

Thank you my friend, I'm getting there :)

[Jennie Baron]

I have to bow once again to your vocabulary and masterful use of the language and ability to tie the words so seamlessly together. It's so different from my more "prosaic" writing...and this is certainly a valid expression of the effect of technology on our lives.

[kublakhan27]

So glad you enjoyed it Jennie...I struggled with this one quite a bit and nearly gave up on it more than once...needless to say I'm glad I didn't haha Thank you as always for the support and the kind words :)

[The Twin Arenas]

what a great idea. "no longer am I confident I can distinguish growth from virus." in this way, the heart of robots and normies are alike.

[kublakhan27]

I guess I was in philosophical mode when I wrote this haha So glad you enjoyed it Waconda.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the portrait of love in internet fashion...are you real or not?

do my words have any impact, any depth...or are they just words coming over a screen in mechanical fashion...i am once electricity in flesh...but now robotic as a machine...i am just shorted out circuitry.

[kublakhan27]

When you're having one of those days when nothing feels real, the internet makes a good poetic scapegoat...thanks so much Jacob.

[Lyn Anderson]

What comes to mind is a preview to a movie I watched of recreating a man as a computer lifeform after he is dead. Hoping against hope to not have to do it all again in the flesh. Maybe that is hell, having to come back again and again.

[kublakhan27]

I wonder about that myself my friend, glad you enjoyed the piece.

[Matching Socks]

IOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIO

I'm so confused.
Am I turned on? Or not?

[kublakhan27]

Haha When you figure it out, please explain it to me too ;P Thank you Ana.