Two Poems, Saturday
Apr. 10th, 2021 08:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricI actually owe three, but let's say two tomorrow as well.
#Computation
Carl Walsh
A reworking of Ezra Pound’s ‘Salutation’ for the 21st Century
O generation of the absolutely online
And absolutely connected,
I have seen fisherpeople on YouTube,
I have seen them with their unreliable internet,
I have seen their smiles full of Bluetooth
And heard of unwelcome download speeds
And I am more ‘liked’ than you are,
And they were more ‘liked’ than I am;
And the fish swim in the ocean
And don’t even own an iPhone.
Meanjin, Summer 2019
I also recommend, but cannot bring myself to hard-code the layout of, Ursula Robinson-Shaw's Everything Is Nice, a poem about the end of everything, including munitiae.
#Computation
Carl Walsh
A reworking of Ezra Pound’s ‘Salutation’ for the 21st Century
O generation of the absolutely online
And absolutely connected,
I have seen fisherpeople on YouTube,
I have seen them with their unreliable internet,
I have seen their smiles full of Bluetooth
And heard of unwelcome download speeds
And I am more ‘liked’ than you are,
And they were more ‘liked’ than I am;
And the fish swim in the ocean
And don’t even own an iPhone.
Meanjin, Summer 2019
I also recommend, but cannot bring myself to hard-code the layout of, Ursula Robinson-Shaw's Everything Is Nice, a poem about the end of everything, including munitiae.