Best Qwerty Poems
I'm a Facebook rebel
An Internet introvert
More like the Anonymous hackers
Masked cowards who can't stage a
coup like our ancestors
And change the course of our social
discourse
I condemn all forms of atrocities
And all retrogressive political
mechanisms
By copy-pasting blogs and famous
quotes on my wall-posts
So as to appear smart and
revolutionary
No time to think independently
anymore
I join Facebook Groups and Pages
That ridicule tribal alliances
And ICC list of shame
While in real life
I'm a coward who can't scream to
stop a neighbour's house from
being robbed
And 99% of my friends, customers,
beer-buddies, roommates and
colleagues are tribe-mates
We are QWERTY revolutionists
We don't have the guts to take to
the streets
Or withstand tear gas canisters or
live bullets
Or police whips like Wangari
Maathai to protect the environment
We so are addicted to life
That no one wants to die for a cause
like Robert Ouko or JM Kariuki
No one wants to look a camera in
the eye and shame the devil of
corruption and impunity and flee to
exile like John Githongo
Or die in poverty and a whizzing
chest of a whistle-blower like David
Munyakei
Or instead of "LOL" "LMFAO", sit
back and write books to change the
tide of stereotypical approach to
national issues
Write plays that will forever make us
enemies of state like Ngugi wa
Thiong'o
Or write real poems that will cause
an up-rising like Leopold Senghor
No.
We are social sites socialites
Wikipeadia scholars
Google researchers
Facebook book-worms
Twitter truth-twisters
"Type Amen" Christians
And keyboard revolutionists
We are a generation of quacks
Quirky QWERTY quacks
Who forget that real life is not on
the web
That the perpetrators of national
decadence and disintegration have
no time for Facebook
They are in your backyard planting
seeds of discord
Planning to distribute your useless
vote
They are re-reading the 48 Laws of
Power
While you are re-reading your last
Post to see how many "Likes" you
have
They are manipulating the statistics
to instill fear
They are creating the problem so
you can cry to them for the solution
pressing digit all escape
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Why use words at all?
Ban all words, makes our skin crawl.
Only the numbers, yes?
And,of course, punctuation marks.
Perhaps..ah, but what then?
Burn all print in a starlit park.
I think it would be one, fine lark!
Man since time began, used simple drawings.
How about that?
Reduce all poetic scrawlings!
8/21/2021
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Qwerty makes us wonder: what about that uiop?
And above we have one, two, three,
and so forth and so on etcetera.
A type of thought we are forced into.
And, yes, a thought of type:
that qwerty and that uiop!
And one-to-zero looks from a higher place.
As we know, zero is one below one -
if you numerate, of course; yet it's to the right.
Is it right to place it to the right of nine?
Or should the right place be left -
the left of the place of one?
(17 Aug 2024)
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the carriage bell dings~
"Shift key sticks again," she sighs,
ink-stained fingers fly.
clack-clack-tack like hail on tin—
whole worlds trapped in QWERTY