earth note 628

having fallen off the digital divide

to a place in-between
a touchpad and on-screen keyboard
where every keystroke
is evaluated and executed
with authoritarian precision
by a facsimile of what
hitherto might have been known
as a hardware keyboard
now approximately 17.5 % kaput

and though the mechanics of all this

don't lend itself
to any streams of consciousness
there is something of a gold lining
in the maples across the avenue
turning their backsides into the wind
& flipping off their middle fingers

--- e b bortz