Written by Nate Cull
Last updated 27 March 1998
In a prism of tears
light, cold, angular Poetry
shatters to spirit is the art of
as matter redefines repackaging
the obvious
In a glass-edged vacuum and selling it as
dark dies hard insight
etched raster-quick
in phosphor time It's a growing market
now that used
Beyond the interface idealogies
lies truth (slightly flawed)
vision are going
rhyme cheap
Original Poetry
All poems on this page are Copyright (C) 1993-1998 by Nate
Cull but released to the Web for free distribution, without modification,
as long as proper attribution is made and a link to this web page is included.
I write poems... why? Why does anyone? I mean? Do anything?
I write poems because I'm depressed and I need to get the pain out of my head and into someone else's. I write poems because I'm happy and I want to snapshot the memory so it will last forever, like a Photo-CD on Mars. I write poems sometimes just because the words are there, are words, tumbling in a slow-motion microgravity spiral through my cortex. Just because.
I don't believe poems exist just to be, a poem has to mean, and all mine do. At least at the time. Meant something. To me. But that's not just what a poem is, a poem is first and fundamentally a jackplug between two brains and if it doesn't get that meaning from me to you then it isn't. A poem I mean. But if it does and only if it does, it is. Know what I mean?
Are these poems poems? Ask me and I'll tell you yes. Of course I would; after all they're bits of my head aren't they?
But that's not important, because I'm not here right now. Only my words are, echoing softly in the back of your retina, which is the closest I can get to immortality short of dying. Which I have my own ideas about, and one day I'll find out, but like I said that's not important. Only. Words. Are. Poems. Words only poems. Are. Are they?
What do you think?
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