Your Computer Has...

Cas Wilson 1999 (United States)



I'm being unwritten

and rewritten

all at once.

My margins are being

scratched away

for a smooth surface

and my words are being rearranged

into someone else's.

My lines of data

are being typed over with

bold little letters and numbers

in a new sequence.

I wonder what they say,

because my lips are mouthing

the discarded script

and it's garbled and echoing

underwater in the heavy gray.

I am null,

indescribable with no binary

and no operating system.

I am system 32

and your computer

has died.
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Written on January 06, 2024

Submitted by LadyPhantasmagoria on January 06, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X A B X X X X X X A C B X B C X X D D X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 520
Words 121
Stanzas 20
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

Cas Wilson

Cas Wilson is a twenty-something history and book nerd living in Pennsylvania with their partner. They have been devouring books their entire life with no plans to stop anytime soon. more…

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