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The Information Superhighway

S. K. Kelen

is a sewer pipe from America it’s staying home forever and falling in love with a computer. It’s the story of Hardware Man & Software Girl setting off together on a kitchen adventure. It’s staying home forever: push a button & a remote controlled custard pie flies in the video compere’s eyes. “Interactive” is when you get to spit back. My house is a city state. Outdoors there’s a weird fog I don’t want to go out in. Forests are flattened to fuel computer factories, the trees are routed once & for all. When the last tiger in the wild died the tigers in the zoo just vanished
© S. K. Kelen. All rights reserved.
From Trans-Sumatran Highway & Other Poems | Polonius, 1995
Reprinted by permission of the author.
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