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Digital Remains: Poems 2013
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ISBN10: 1517480086
ISBN13: 9781517480080
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 30 2015
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781517480080
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 30 2015
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
DIGITAL REMAINS includes drawings peppering the poems and deals with addiction, drought, satire, love, compassion, hurt, and the nature of poetry. There's a scathing guttural congressional spoof and a syrupy blast at corporate greed. Gino Sky says that Goodell is a true poet who has never once taken the academic way out. He is what we all strove for when we first started on our quests as revolutionary poets. And here's the title poem:
Your Digital Remains
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges What's going to happen to your digital remains?
It remains to be seen.
It might be a dream that you're going to be on the beam forever.
As a matter of fact someone's going to pull the plug
on you, on me, all at once or by degree.
That server's going to be hot for somebody else
and then another server will give you up
in fact they may all give you up
or get too hot to do anything but blow up.
Then where will your digital remains be?
Not even remaindered like a book,
a good ole book, whether ever opened or not,
has a helluva longer life potential
than the ones and zeros of this serious computer grip
that's taken over the world.
If the servers are boiled and your disks fried
and you lost your thumb drive anyway
I'll see you in a book, you know, that's where I'll look. Larry Goodell Goodell's often musical words are drawn from an enthusiastic awareness of as many roles in life as son nephew husband father bookseller poet publisher gardener homesteader neighbor and lover of life on this planet. Roy Durfee, KUNM-FM, Albuquerque
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges What's going to happen to your digital remains?
It remains to be seen.
It might be a dream that you're going to be on the beam forever.
As a matter of fact someone's going to pull the plug
on you, on me, all at once or by degree.
That server's going to be hot for somebody else
and then another server will give you up
in fact they may all give you up
or get too hot to do anything but blow up.
Then where will your digital remains be?
Not even remaindered like a book,
a good ole book, whether ever opened or not,
has a helluva longer life potential
than the ones and zeros of this serious computer grip
that's taken over the world.
If the servers are boiled and your disks fried
and you lost your thumb drive anyway
I'll see you in a book, you know, that's where I'll look. Larry Goodell Goodell's often musical words are drawn from an enthusiastic awareness of as many roles in life as son nephew husband father bookseller poet publisher gardener homesteader neighbor and lover of life on this planet. Roy Durfee, KUNM-FM, Albuquerque
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