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Electric Ego

I want to write a poem

but I have to write code instead

There can be a kind of poetry in code

especially my code

I'm proud of the elegant design

of my loops and logics

my streamlined systems

My code flows

 

pulling the User along effortlessly

guiding them gracefully from one end of the black box to the other

and out again

No Errors

My code flows

 

secret haikus left in comment blocks

for other programmers to find

like digital hieroglyphics on virtual cave walls

test data populated with pantheons and

mystical chants from faraway lands

My code flows

 

water of ones

in sea of zeroes

pouring through me

from aether to mind to muscle to machine

bit by bit

block by block

stacked upon stack

module into module through function and parameters passed

My code flows

 

flows through me

until the integer flips

the Boolean switch

change of state

status update

now compiled and crystallized

Executable

and then passed on

leaving me

out of my hands

disseminated to The Users

like a prayer to a congregation

I hear the clicking fingers of their choir

singing the song of my code

now flowing through Them

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michael-valentine
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Feb 22, 2013
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