The Role Of Technology In Karmic Fulfillment

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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2003-10-08 10:38 PM

Your voice purrs
into the deep electronic night;
your presence shines
crisply red in blinking light,
the proper code
releases all your sultry tones,
reveals you
in plain sight of my mind's weary eye
where your image rests not aging
through the many years unknown.

I hear the rapture in your sigh;
though I do not know if you were alone
you were clearly comfortable
feeling
you own the self-proclaimed right to call me,
or not,
any time you want
day or night.

Sometimes,
like last night hot and languid
on one too many sips of wine,
curled naked,
sophisticated
sex in the city
in a pricey one night bed
over Times Square,
hinting you are mine
if only I was there;
sometimes in a rush,
without apparent guile,
like a child waiting too long
running to the toilet
spilling words out
in a gushing jumble of excited pride,
just taking my ear along for the ride.

Sometimes I wonder
if you remember calling me at all.
You know,
like out of sight out of mind,
you slip through my phone number,
a door to your own private dumping ground,
and before you're gone
you've shed your momentary thoughts,
your peripatetic passions
spilled forth on the floor of my brain,
then you leave feeling light
and justified.

I realized long ago
that I could have died,
and as long as my phone worked
you would not change at all.

There would still be slurred and sticky nights
when you would grab your phone and call,
or those high maintenance mornings,
stumbling to awake from nights
of one too many men,
one too many pints,
one too many sips of wine,
pouring out disjointed stories
of pseudo-enlightened self-indulgence
laced with pride in your accomplishments,
exaggerated broken rambling tales
of supersonic life in the rarefied air
of New York's social stratosphere,
sharp vignettes
without endings
unfinished in a rush,
broken insights clipped by taxi fares
or signals lost on subway stairs,
promises to tell the rest some other day,
at best you should know
some other day was locked away
unfinished long ago,
or pity pity pity
about some horrid social tragedy you've seen
like someone wearing lavender and orange
striped with green,
or white shoes after Labor Day,
or praise me praise me praise me
stories jazzed on so much sugar
and caffeine,
self-centered words all stuck together
as if you're shot with speed.

It doesn't matter to you it seems
that we haven't met in years,
that I don't even see you
in my dreams,
that unless I'm bound in chains
powerless in fact and deed
we will never meet again;
I've simply come to believe
it is my answering service you need.

©2003 by icebox

the_loner_23
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since 2002-06-08

Posts 5479
Jacksonville, Florida, USA

1 posted 2003-10-08 11:05 PM

I really enjoyed this read.

Cold hands means a warm heart

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

2 posted 2003-10-08 11:16 PM

I am glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for telling me.

John B
Member

since 2002-07-02

Posts 68
Texas, USA

3 posted 2003-10-08 11:18 PM

this is like eating turkey. hard to not see the significance.

i will be of one command.
sometimes it's the hardest thing you can do.

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

4 posted 2003-10-08 11:31 PM

Like turkey? That's great!

Thank you.

angelblueyes
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since 2003-07-19

Posts 2148
Oklahoma

5 posted 2003-10-09 12:01 PM

This is good.I like the way you intertwine this between technology and karmic fullfillment.Your insights always bring so much to me and give me the diversity that I'm looking for.