When Evaluating Myself
When evaluating myself
The inclination is to pose
In best light, of course;
You know what I mean-
Shifting in the mirror
Just right; Hum! Which is
My best side today?
And if worse comes to worse,
There is always Photoshop;
The full version
Often needed
In my
Organic case....
How on earth
Did we ever image
Without computers?
I mean, total freedom!
The option to go anywhere--
Be anyone or anything;
Or dissolve
To password obscurity;
My hard-drive-soul
With trillions of bytes
Left, to covet or waste--
Magnetism sunken
To new attractive lows;
Still-light
Only negative
Charges--
Here, voices surface:
Portraits remaining deeply
Obscured
For blurred--
Things I wish I could
(Wanting to share)--
At the end of the day
Garbled by the silence
Of Distance Living
(Untouched, print-less walls
Of my electronic gallery)--
Sights and sounds
Only, perhaps, yet
Clearly heard
By angels
And demons
Now sunken
To man-made hollows,
Those fanned
Cooling spaces
Of a Keyboard Society,
Once coveted warmth
Our worse enemy....
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