Monday, July 22, 2013

Living on the Internet

Living on the Internet


My fingers conduct an opus on keyboard--

music that knows no ears but those in memory.

My eyes lock the wonders of a seventeen-inch window to the world--

introductions to people I will never know

and visions of things even history can no longer contain.

My avatar soars over mountains--

at one instant at a concert in Rome

while listening to a friend’s dog yelping next door.

I feel so connected to a place

that has nothing to do with my reality--

a darkened and solitary room

where anywhere is suspended

from fleeting time

and my adventures

are constrained

only by arthritic fingers

and failing eyes.

 

-Jerry Wendt 2013

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