Brains melting on this sweltering afternoon.
Sniffing once, twice, fluid bits of binary operations
oozing from tips of fingers
tinkering with minute details of
impossible Computer 6 programs.
amalgams. anagrams. space jams.
To the beat of Michael Jordan,
whirring on the ceiling, on puerile fans.
one understands
that if I flunk this, man, I’ve gotta scram!
though it was fun blasting away
at 30 minutes a time, sautéing my brain
for a computer scan,
tying bits of ends of puzzles
too crazy to understand, comprehend,
apprehend, suspend,
the inevitability of it dawning on me,
man…
understand? —
had no other stand but to take it,
banking on my passing it;
so when the box is on, I am.
And when things flicker on the screen,
man… my brains scatter;
then I have to reach out with both hands,
fingers extended in a trance,
no chance
to capture that rapture
on my teacher’s stance
as he converses with the air molecules.
All askance.
(composed 19th March 1997)
I dug this out today, made me smile at my funny attempts at “poetry”, and it also coincided with what I have been doing these past 2 days: learning how to navigate an LMS, a learning management system, which is a platform used by schools to facilitate online learning. Whew. I passed the training with perfect scores! Nope, doesn’t mean I got it all perfected, ha-ha-ha, but that I was able to survive the pressure of producing outputs at the end of the sessions, so that I’d be given a certificate saying I’m not totally ignorant ot it! 😀
Some words I used, defined; copied from different sites (thanks!)
scatterbrain = a person who is forgetful, disorganized, or unable to concentrate or think clearly
askance = to look at or think about someone or something with doubt, disapproval, or no trust
amalgam = a mixture of different elements (not necessarily of the chemical kind)
anagram = an anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. For example, the word anagram itself can be rearranged into nag a ram, also the word binary into brainy and the word adobe into abode.
puerile = childishly foolish; immature or trivial
PERSPECTIVES -so to live fully- 