Pixellate:Does Not Compute
One morning in the future
We woke up all awry;
With fiction hard upon us,
There were pixels in the sky.
The endless coding scrolling by,
The certainty of pi.
The numbers crunched have turned
Into pixels in the sky.
The endless people droning past,
A silent, mechanical sigh;
The only sound that’s left below
The pixels in the sky.
The early hours were gone
So I watched the day go by -
But I had to stop and count
The pixels in the sky.
I woke up to a future
The robots couldn’t spy,
They didn’t even notice
The pixels in the sky.
So, people turn your heads down
Send that email, subject: last goodbye -
Now we cannot see much more
Than pixels in the sky.
February 26th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Oooooo! I really like that!!!
March 1st, 2010 at 10:56 am
Why, Thank you! I don’t, particularly… but it is just a first draft.
March 17th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
I liked this too. It’s like a digital fairy tale. The language and rhyme is amazingly constrained and bound together. It’s an incredible skill there. You do it for your haikus too, always makes me envious.
…I dont get what the pixals in the sky are though. Stars? Maybe that’s the point.
March 18th, 2010 at 12:05 am
Hmm… I was kinda shooting for the idea that the world was so tuned in, plugged in and connected to technology that the world turned into what was, essentially, one huge networked computer system. Like we were inside a this world-sized monitor looking out, but we hadn’t noticed the change, and hadn’t noticed that there were (wait for it) pixels in the sky, which is kinda… a major indicator that something’s gone wrong.
March 18th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
maybe a context statement would help tie in the intended signifer theme (hmm, I wonder if that’s even correct terminology). Or a stanza that’s narrows the various topics that the reader could read into.
still like it, i just clearly got a very different interpretation of the intended reading.