Ode to Life

Ode to Life

See, I bit life and life “bytes” me back;

I live in an electric green room full of 0s and 1s,

Where electricity dances like Wordsworth’s Daffodils;

I crave for the gray world of movies and TV;

To act like novice on stage, and to break into a “corpse”

I sit tightly in front of static signals to look for reminisces of Big Bang;

While I try to fine tune my analogue signals,

And to teleport QWERTY over Wi-Fi,

I play with myself: I kick football and pitch baseball onto bleeding walls;

I read the same sentence –

Which the Judge handed over to me through Orwellian tube –

From a blasphemous book over and over (and all);

I weep in the arms of digits, ISO letters and useless stats;

I salute flags, even of our sworn enemies;

I collect news clippings just to throw them into fire;

I empty and fill caskets with water;

I rearrange my room until everything is left broken;

I write extravagant worlds which mean nothing;

Far away my hell awaits me ‘With Arms Wide Open’,

For how great a life would be if one’s only noteworthy possession is a 100 Lira coin!

 2013-06-29