Chapter 79: A Poem

Molly Stone

C:/Watch your diet
Floppy disk slipped

Would you like to go
with me to the land

where punctuation is
your first step?

After that you run.

When you crash
there are no bruises
or hurt feelings.

You go back.  You can
change your words.

You can make it right.

Run again.

Return;

If you could go back and fix your life,
debugging your past.

Can you find out what caused the crash?
Do you know what you’re fixing?

If your life ran like good instructions do
You could see if you can mess it up.
Testing it.

Once is not enough.

Other people need it.  Your bounding box
is intersected.

Inside the program you have to be
well-behaved.  You can’t ask for nothing.
At no time may any part of you
divide by zero.

But not all exceptions are fatal.
Operations in the operating room have an
operating system.  If you don’t fall too
hard it will catch you.

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