Scanner Poems

The Boy the World Forgot

...He came into the world without a sound.
No hands reached out to hold his fragile head.
The nurse just wrote his name and walked away-
A child born to silence, not to songs.

His mother stared th...

Eye Triggering

...Envelop
of the eye scanner
institutes
the heart of
Compartmentalization
to grasp the distance 

©Mahtab Bangalee...

All's Well That Ends Well

...

Happy as poop got results of my brain scan
Had a hard time finding it when the scanner began
It sputtered and screeched
Till my bum it did reach
Outta place but “all's WELL that ENDs ...

Grasshoppers

...
Green grasshoppers glide gracefully over the ground, 
Their glossy gossamer wings glitter all around, 
Their glassy feathers generate grandiose sound, 
Like glorious gladiators, some golden ...

Emotional Siege

...My emotions tease me at their will,
Plunder my hapless intellectual world
And declare a bloodless coup d’état.
This undeclared war shocks my core,
Grips me with a freakish fear
And force...

Looking For A Brain

...
Having a CT Scan in a couple of days
Most likely looking for a brain
Hope they find something that resembles such
Not finding one might be a strain

Might think the Scanner is no longe...

Gotta Go

...Books to the library
photos to family.
Paint cans and lumber
from renovations years ago.
Most of the furniture
including the piano.
Fastest way to do this
is rent a dumpster.

On the interne...

Looking For A Brain

...

Having a CT Scan in a couple of days
Most likely looking for a brain
Hope they find something that resembles such
Not finding one might be a strain

Might think the Scanner is no lon...

Looking For a Brain

...Having a CT Scan in a couple of days
Most likely looking for a brain
Hope they find something that resembles such
Not finding one might be a strain

Might think the Scanner is no longer ...

A Antidotal Living

...Head-first slid into the belly of a scanner
Humming and clicking
far away canned music turns white

Trying not to think of shadows
the telltale marks of
a spreading fear

Weeks later
there a...

Out of Step

...Talking heads are synchronized,
words are replicated like cloned sheep.

Dodging in and out of an unchanging static
I skip the beat.
Hey, something just flashed my drive!

Time to suspend a st...

Lackluster Life

...Come to me with a heart truly sincere,
I am fed up of your games and eyewash;
And your pure pretenses in every sphere, 
Stop existing like a capricious bosh...! 

Don't act like living and live ...

All's Well That Ends Well

...I'm happy as poop, got the results of my brain scan
They had a hard time finding it when the scanner began
It sputtered and screeched
Till my bum it did reach
It's outta place but it's an...

Curse of the Wisdon

...books stacked, spine horizontally allowing the title and author to be seen, cars facing the front, hood and license plate, people and trees distinguishable by height and hair or crown, the sequenc...

Provisagenus Ai

...Coming now from 2B Platform
Ding, the depressed robot, cleaned the cocoon
holographic messages from mom
saying everithing is good in the moon
nothing to eat in the scanner 
and where are you, my...

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