there are marbles in my mind
matching trajectories
hurtling
you could see it like this
we have space but so little time
there you are
in red on the radar
thread knotted around my wrists
around my fingers, tied at the joints
I am a puppet typing
statistically created
launching off the walls
another game, another dollar
in your transnational pinball machine
the kids with the cash, they play until
they hold all the high scores
socioeconomics pulls the strings so
I am typing out a blueprint --
gender, race, religion
you can read my future in these pixels
like tea leaves
destiny in binary or
in bar graphs in a boardroom
"sir, it seems we've found our target market"
(lock on and tell me where she's heading
I want to know her inside and out)
tracing your flight pattern
marking you out
shooting you down
Author notes
Written for Option #2: Destiny.
Q: Does it really exist? Are our lives ruled by some kind of divine fate?
A: No, not divine fate. Our lives are ruled by numbers, by statistics, by demography, by nationality. Extrapolate the figure and you've got destiny in a computer program, ready and waiting.
I blame Dateline and The Bourne Supremacy.
A contest entry
- D is for... by Pandorea.
800 points, ended June 13, 2008, 15 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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I read this earlier, which is why you ended up on my favorites, and I must say, I was impressed by your inventive use of theme and careful word use. The "tea leaves" stanza is marvelous. My only critique would be to watch "ing" words real close together, like at the start and end...but that's really personal preference, more than anything else. Your stuff is very loose and I love that about it. So my comment is not very helpful in terms of improvement, but hey, that's all I got.
Glad I was able to stop by, at the moment.
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interesting...maybe a bit vague but it's interesting how you answered the question i asked, and with a negative. i like that.
thanks for entering. -
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And for the first time, I can say that vague is what I was aiming for
. "Supremacy" did my head in and left this in the spot where my mind used to be, lol.
Thx for the comment.
xx.
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