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Open Poetry #33

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James_A_Fraser
Senior Member

since 2003-09-03

Posts 972
Out Making Anticlines

0 posted 2004-09-20 04:41 PM

Appliance:

It Is This:
I Am A Machine Now:
I Do What Is Required:
Input: Response: Just That:
Task Are Completed:
Conversations Held:
Sighs Sighed:
You Are A Task:
Somehow An Appliance:
Completes You:

I Am Still Complex:
Automatic Cycles Mimic Feeling:
And Autonomic Subroutines:
These Maintain Breathing:
And: Other Functions:
There Is Even Ladder Logic:
To Instigate A Social Climb:
Under Certain Conditions:
I Can Simulate Volition:

You Run Me: I Run:
No Need To Guide:
Activate The Presets:
Null Emotion:
Emotion Would Be An Alarm:
I Mitigate Alarms:
Maintain The Lists Of Lists:
Combine Subfunctions:
Stimulus And:
Unconditional Response:

I Am Necessary:
Almost:
I Maintain The Life We Know:
Almost:
Paint Me Colors You Choose:
Under Them I Am Clothed:
In Electric Gray:

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

1 posted 2004-09-20 04:47 PM

This is a magnificent write... metaphor and imagery at their best... but the poignant pull of Almost wrenches my heart... This depth of write indicates either vivid imagination or knowing what none should know... I pray your imagination is fantastic. *S*

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

2 posted 2004-09-20 04:47 PM

Well Hi there Mr Fraser...
enjoyed this I did....

I Am Necessary:
Almost:
I Maintain The Life We Know:
Almost:

Oh indeed.

Good to read you

Maree.

Well I see you doing, What I try to do for me, With the words from a poet, And a voice from a choir, And a melody, nothing else matters. ~Stevie Nicks

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2004-09-20 05:27 PM

Jamie

A sad metaphor, so well done! I hope all is well!

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