A little song for computer technology

TeKnowLAwGee

(21st Century Sonnet)

Soft flashy, cliques ‘n’ klatches, pulses thrum-

Ming dynasties of circuitries ‘n’ fits

Out of reality virtually mum,

Le machine shepherds us by bytes ‘n’ bits.

Escapist torpor drives le dawdling,

Doodling mécanisme, netted in its

Own web, site-unseen on-screen teeming

With each ‘n’ every monde of chips ‘n’ zips.

Multiple-universe drives A-C-D

In which lithe ratones run ‘n’ vise gate-

Keepers crash ‘n’ dive online to key

What mystifies ‘n’ throttles humanity –

Not brillo ‘n’ clamour, but tried, true bait:
Dissemination wide, spread geometrically.

2004

"TeKnowLAwGee" has not been published before, although it was collected in The Operose Hierodule of the Muse, an unpublished collection of poetry.  The persona of the sonnet tries to get at the fascination of the new global technology circulating on the World Wide Web.  One might say that it is a sequel to "The Computer's Psalm" written during a time of now obsolescent technology before PCs, wireless communication, and the Internet.

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