Poems with Bud: Leaving the Code

Bud posted an image of a QR code this morning for his poetry prompt. It may be that the QR means something but I looked at it simply as an image, only, and noticed that three of the corners had boxes. One corner did not. And it led me to this poem.

You went missing when they made the code –

The vacant corner

in the bottom of file

Upsetting the symmetry

of the Quick Response stamp

 

and the three of us sat, waiting,

we wondered why we there, too,

and if perhaps your act of defiance

wasn’t another digital signal to us

 

to move along

to steal back our data while we could

and leave this place

just another empty space

 

so that imagination could fill it in

with stories and poems and drawings

instead of cold information that never caught

who we were anyway.

We left …

And the podcast:

Peace (in and out of the code),
Kevin

 

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