Best Geeks Poems

Jocks
gruff, tough
grinning, winning, sinning
asses and passes; glasses and classes
fluting, computing, disputing
wordy, nerdy
Geeks


For the Diamante Contest of Janis Thompson...

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I know the I.T.’s at work are busy.
If you are lucky enough not to know, 
they are computer geeks.

I have sent my I.T.’s about three emails.
I have left them nineteen or twenty phone messages.
I think they have blocked me now.

There are over twenty-one hundred district...

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The smart, modern boys
who’ll shepherd satellites
and parent sly AI -

live blocks away and
spend sunny afternoons with
digital zombies.

I talked with one - once,
I think, he mumbled some
strange techno-English.

He was pale and
skittish but attractive
In a shy, goth way.

“Who are you voting
for?” he stared blankly, “for prom
court??” he...

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