and go on Facebook where key words are verbs: Friend / Unfriend…
On Feb 11, 2015, at 9:57, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Max Ah that delete button! I was thinking about some relationship poems
> around that wonderful words like 'options ' 'inserts'
> 'Attach item' 'permission' 'low importance' 'options '' quick parts!!'and
> more phew!!head spins cheers P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 11 February 2015 17:47
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: 'Deletion'
>
> Deletion
>
> And so between inbox
> and outbox he lived his life,
> hovering over Save and Send.
> Now he has deleted himself -
> Delete All - a fitting end.
>
> Therefore - clear out the attic
> clear out the cellar
> clear out everything between -
> the greybeard's gone
> nowhere to be seen.
>
> No way he'll ever
> be back - good riddance
> to the septic sceptic. Denier
> not of climate change
> but that it's man-made.
>
> Deodorise disinfect
> decontaminate.
> Welcome the clean new tenant
> to the cleared space,
> the fresh air, hygienic emptiness,
>
> the new broom, the unspoiled
> spontaneous innocence.
> Straight? - unbending.
> Clean-shaven? - beardless.
> Uncreased by laughing,
>
> suffering, experience.
> Smooth hopefulness,
> environmental activist
> anti-sentimentalist,
> his files in the Cloud.=
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