./old.soft.ware

[Alan Sondheim]

./old.soft.ware

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with ideogrammatic intervals! i:children.some software may apply. now the
sign says Does replace your ?::::am constantly undisciplined, sickly ill.
i am set going. why have::restrictions may apply," and "the gift that
keeps on giving." i'll deal:restrictions may apply," and "the gift that
keeps on giving." i'll deal Does replace your i:children.some software may
apply. now the sign says Does replace your ?? contract with ideogrammatic
intervals! :::am constantly undisciplined, sickly ill. azure keeps me. why
have i:children.some software may apply. now the sign says Does replace
your ? i was afraid of this. i remember you playing years before my death.
the internet has harmed me. i remain homebound, stillborn. i cannot move
my muscles. my acquaintances have fallen away. my lungs are bad, my eyes.
i am constantly undisciplined, sickly ill. azure keeps me. why have i
always seen only through mediation, remediation. from restoration ecology,
i have learned i am nothing but environmental scrip. i remain yours, "some
restrictions may apply," and "the gift that keeps on giving." i'll deal
with this later. will this i become a you? what has this software
done?what will this software do. i am a bird frozen and huddled in the
schoolyard door. i am a bird with paralyzed legs. i am a bird wrapped with
string. i am a bird with broken wing. i am a bird missing a foot. i am a
jew bird. avrahm doesn't live here any more. there are always other
children.some software may apply. now the sign says drowing the surface
"would-you-like-to-drown-with-me." i remember undergoing the surface. you
were there. i flailed and you were gone. or drifted. this happened just as
the woman who walked away from me later water-skied into her mutilated
face cut by the dock's overhang. the hills are scarred in silent spring.
coal trains carry the bodies of prehistory into the furnaces of yesterday.
smoke coils into the present.software what are you doing to me. have you
reversed or substituted, deluged the text with the chaos of emptied
meaning. i'm writing through you. look i am alone on this machine. inode.

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