A Laptop Universe Poem by GREENWOLFE 1962
A Laptop Universe
'Gee, you're looking good today'.
I said as I looked down.
He winked a bit and slightly smiled,
But never made a sound.
'Yes, you're looking good today '.
I said in joyful cheer.
I would have hugged him oh so tight,
Could I have held him near.
He was there, just as he was,
Sure all there was of him.
A silent head, without a form.
A tech, in charge of them.
The wires and plugs that kept alive
The head of my best friend.
So he could live another day,
of life, that may not end.
The table there on which it lay,
A laptop universe.
Sadly holding this display.
How could a fate be worse?
They'd made for him a phony form,
Just as he once had been.
They sure need a place called Hell,
To put these _______s in.
I pressed a tab on his display
And he soon came alive.
What ere it was, it seemed as though,
He had a good hard drive.
I heard his voice as it had been.
Amazing, what they do!
'My friend, I'm glad you came today.
I don't see much of you '.
I tried to smile, it must be him,
I thought there after all.
Science plays such tricks on us
So often in this hall.
He talked to me, I talked to him,
For just a little while.
I wonder at such things as this,
Our lives of endless guile.
I left the lab of tortured souls
And looked out at the stars.
Perhaps they did such things as this
Once long ago, on Mars.
I breathed the air, such as it was;
With all its smoke and grit
And prayed I'd be at peace someday
As just a part of it.
Lol, I would have never thought to write about my computer! ! I love your poems and ideas. Good job.
Poetry at its best..Wow..i stand in awe of you..and this is a REAL, REAL POET..not bragging, not rude, but just doing his best and share his talent with us.A wonderful write. Hugs, meggie
very good poem. Laptops are very important to most people who posess them. i know i love mine. my friends love theirs, and we would feel completely disconnected without them. laptops, internet. very very good poem. Cyrena
As per the number of comments... A great poem of this technological age... Superb... Colin J...
Your words always so brilliant and deeply empowering. Technology is truly nothing without the interaction of people's creative minds and involvement.
technology in whatever form is nothing without the man behind it...the technological connectivity we have now is just great...the people haven't become true enough to really connect
The drudgery, the dependency on the almighty tech. True we do personalise the inanimate and for some it is their only company. Sadness and truth resonates; rhyme or no..I like it and think it is well penned.
Funny and thought provoking. I saw myself in it. I loved it, thank you, i will read more. :)
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Very well you took control of rhyming what isn't quite simple. Brilliantly you are also writing and I like it. Greeting :) Maria Barbara Korynt