Jun 7, 2016 Free Verse, Original Poetry, The Daily Post
Dot Matrix
©June7th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
Here’s a dot, see?
And there’s one.
Quick, draw a line!
Resembles nothing much.
Now, see this one?
And that one?
Quick, draw another line!
Still, nothing much.
Do the same, draw lines from A to B,
From one bright dot to another,
All scattered chaotically across
This sublunar sun-bashed place!
Something seems to emerge.
Stand back and take a good, long look.
What do you see?
Was it what you wanted to see?
Or something you never imagined?
Was this the image you dreamed of?
No? Step back, stand aside.
Let us see with our own eyes.
Ah, you got an ape,
Arms low to the ground,
Brow furrowed and low,
Grief in his hirsute visage.
He’s looking up wide-eyed
Fearful, dreaming, while
Brilliant, icy spears of light
Pierce the night air, and he’s
Caught in the tug between
Confusion and desire.
Welcome to humanity!
You’ve connected the dots.
The stars await you.
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*I use the term matrix in two different ways, and one of them means “breeding female,” from the Latin word for mother, i.e. “mater.”
And, of course, anyone who dealt with computers in the 80s and early 90s knows what a dot matrix printer is.
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