Help Wanted

The computer crashed and, once again, I’m caught in a confused morass
of ignorance (on my part) of what to do when the hard drive is re-established … sigh ….

HELP WANTED

it opens a grey mouth
masticates files                                           
swallows the chewed relics
into a wired cauldron
of bytes   chips   urls
swirling in a gastric fugue

I fish with inexpert fingers
for a folder   hoping the monster
will regurgitate poetry

instead     lines     an arrow
a nothing instruction
which leads me to the phone
and a request for friendly
help

 

First published by Short Humour

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‘A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art. From Inanna Publications, 2016.