Digital Poetry

Digital Poetry

Code is a little like
Digital poetry, set in motion,
It reads a little different every sitting
It grows on you so subtly
It becomes part of you: sometimes
It becomes partly you:
You live a little bit of life through it
As it takes away a little slice
Of all that needless mess you'd have to go through.
And when we have written
An app for every imaginable moment
We'd be able to put away
Every needless mess we used to call life
And be born perfect.
When the only thing left to do in life is the dying,
Maybe we'd start to see
We are like twenty-first century servers:
Ultimately mere consumables
Briefly energized by immortal code
Pretending we do not understand
The meaning of MTTF.