Digital Organs

by Cooper   May 14, 2008


Power on;
reset,
question?
Function, misunderstood.
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Digitally existing in the remains of yesterday,
involuntarily molesting yourself,
cold steel and a knife for fingers;
plurals are the incorrect function.

But show me your calculator,
that matter beating in your carapace,
like a serpent slithering through
a doorway of ancestors
constructing the Christ and the Devil;
and all the same, are they.

A slave to critical judgement,
percise, but accelerated
driving down highways paved with dead birds,
flying was not the function,
flying was the way to Heaven;
automatically building the stairway
and the trapdoors,
how they are the same.

And the same,
for multiplying hatred
and dividing left-overs,
machinery is the same as an organ.

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  • 15 years ago

    by NyellMoonlight

    Wow...
    I admire your metaphors, as always. This piece is utterly brilliant, remarkable. I'm sure that I already told you that you write the most effective and captivating love poetry that I've ever read, endlessly original and refreshing.
    Your choice of words here is superb through the whole piece and the descriptions took me to completely different world. I like the introduction to the poem, that first stanza truly made me wonder where this will go. Overall, this is mind-blowing.
    The third stanza is my favorite one, it is truly powerful and vivid.