I dive....
For Adrienne Rich
I dive
into cyber
space
a cyber
marine
archaelogist
and I seek your
voice
in the sea
of images
and words
in the worn-out
mise-en-abime
in the
anime
velasquez
behind the door
of a chatroom
or under
a gif banner
I seek you
and you change
regions
and names
and even genders
I swim into the
archives, past
the exchanges
of I love yous
and do I know yous
and get lost
Somewhere
I believe
like the T Ford
in the Brave New World
there is a beginning
you had a
voice
and I swim further
through search engines
through irrevelancy
I hear a one billionth
of your voice
and I still
swim, enchanted
by the prospect I might
find a Lucy,
that I might be a Leakey,
and I come to a programme
written in the Pentagon
to the initial system,
and maybe you are
there exchanging information
about
a missile
or an aircraft
that might
eventually
destroy me,
and my government grant
runs out just as I emerge in
the first email exchange
that said I love u
I play David Bowie's
Space Oddity
to add to the
retro pathos.
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