HTML Poem by Mary McCray
(a poem assembled by clicking)
(July 2021)
“New and interesting ways to use the Internet are being dreamed up
every day.”
Edward Vielmetti, Zen and the Art of the Internet, 1993
“Does the internet dream about itself?”
Werner Herzog
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First Stanza: The book is still stable. >>>
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Stanza: Have you ever seen a hummingbird in a minefield? >>>
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Third
Stanza: Am I intercepting something? Am I caught up
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Stanza: Do I exist out here as another byting self of keystrokes? >>>
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Stanza: We had a safe word but it wasn’t for sex. >>>
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Seventh
Stanza: The heart makes it hard to get into the head. >>>
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Stanza: Sometimes we fly off the swing and there’s no ground there.
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Stanza: What is this trouble? What does it look like? >>>
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Stanza: Put all the blame on VCRs. Yes, let’s do that >>>
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Stanza: I will read something you said that I know will please and cling,
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I am but am right here
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