Like a wheelbarrow wheel
after too many concrete dumps
my hard drive squeaks.

Maybe there is pressure inside,
too much ink seeking karma, anxious
to reincarnate as flecks of recycleness.

Or maybe the hub drags
from the thick pasty data layers
never wiped clean by honest application.

Or the platters unbalanced from
the bloated and vapid notes we send
in homage to a shrine of ourselves.

Or the bearings crusted with the dust
of ideas lost in magnetic labyrinths,
mummies revolving in a pharaoh's tomb.

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Daniel A. Johnson 10/31/00


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