BUMPERS: "LIT & THE INFO-AGE"
(An invented form, related to tanka, each link requiring exactly 84
characters. For Barry Spacks's complete explanation of the form, click here.)

Even the most intense
cyber-Wonks confess
that something's missing
in the pixels.

     Deep communion?

*

Yet the joy,
so speedy,
to OFF the hierarchy

sprawl
like a loose canon

Professor pals
with Custodian.

*

                getting a bigger monitor
          ah, that's better
     but communion?
              OH
     The Joy of  Cyber-sex 
     No need for a condom
         
*

Screwing with words
  Don Juan the master
   even blind Borges'
Funes remembered him

  Has his own web page.

*

The pain of poor Funes, unable
not to remember:

  himself a one-man Information Age,

a fly in his own Web

*

Funes, image for
this tsimas
    of our over-stocked brains.

Hamlet said it best
"Words, words, words."

*

no wonder poor Bill
wanted to touch, be touched!

No wonder we sit so happily
on our cushions in silence

*
        
            I did a search for
               John Donne's Flea,
                   found 67,844 hits

            More than half offered sex pics
                   (I am guessing)

*
                              
                       Ah, morning
             e-mail from family and friends

                once I saw an NC17 site

                   once was enough

                   search
              pest control

*

                     I hit on William Blake's
                web page,
                      links to experience
                     links to innocence
                   and some great
                            wall-paper.
                                   
*

the stuff you find on the Web!
john not filling right,
I'm advised by a lady plumber
at Toiletology 101

*

and now I've been asked for a poem
for the new computer studio:
"So where's the repose of yesteryear?"

*

Best Information I've had this Info Age:

"sit! breathe! compassion! all Systems
are bound to crash"

*
              
                    I should have
                         "saved"
                     she sighed
                          as the machine told her
                      it was empty
                   
                        Then her Sufi
                         screen saver
                            came on 

*

                Lama to a group
                    3,000 miles away

                       virtual bliss on-line

                   answering questions
                          by modem
                                saving good ones

*

no sleep
                no money
                      no space
                    ah, parenting
                                 
a  four year old
                             watching dad
                    doing on-line ad copy 
                             for nannies 

*

"Spirit at Work" -- I get by URL
an essay: Workplace Silence

      (my work nothing but
wall-to-wall talk).

*

bards will continue
to fuck-up royally,
eyes of readers to dim
      whether by pixel or ink.

       oh human sound

*

At their site
     Tibetan Monks
bless cyberspace

mantra there
    prays that this new Power
    be used for good.

*

I love the Tibetans!
Their word for computer --
"magic-finger-pushing-
picture-making-machine"

*

  A Japanese friend
  speaks of Kami

                  What is it?  

              A  God that lives

                 In this machine.

                       And they pour tea.

          Yes
                                  Tea


{by Barry Spacks & Lawrence E. Leone
@ bumpercars.com}