The Tear Duct Override Code, featuring Snail Mail From Jail

This is the override code for the Tear Duct Control System.

The code uses additional security protection, and must be entered exactly. The code is case-sensitive, line break-senstitive, and font-sensitive.

The font used is "Personal Penmanship Small Caps".

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1st generation
recording
of thoughts
condition
emotion
and overall demeanor
manifested directly
from Idea to Inscription
using lead markings
on wooden pulp

has more soul than

an Idea
digitized on qwerty
transformed to numbers
0
and
1
rescrambled into recognizable Roman
characters on LCD
which, until printed,
exist only
in cyberspace

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Typing in the code correctly will override the wall controls of the Tear Ducts, and allow the water to flow from your eyes unobstructed.

Sting Lacson

A writer. By degree and by profession. Also strongly advocates ten-finger typing to all writers because that's what you do for a living, so be efficient at it.

6 comments :

Sting Lacson said...

I am sure I am not the first, but it is quite interesting to note that I have accidentally stumbled upon a different form of poetry. This is "a poem within a poem". The main poem is entitled "The Tear Duct Override Code". And within the poem is another smaller poem, "Snail Mail From Jail", which is the override code itself. The smaller poem (the intra) can exist independently, while the main poem (the extra) cannot exist, or at least cannot properly convey its message, without the intra.

Wow, I sound so scholarly. Chos.

Giosi Mendoza said...

Most of your bests come out when you use the path of the code. Likened to women, these compositions of yours are very fuckable! :) i like!

Sting Lacson said...

Yay Osi thank you for the comment!

Giosi Mendoza said...

it is the style that i like most in your poetry. it does not seek to delve into the depths of egohood rather it gives you the subtle mechanisms of "Being" which i think is a very apt read/activity for our times. It is both simple and grand altogether wherein Everything naturally is. Hypnotically meditative! :) i'm a fan!
as an ender, id like to quote a faux German by saying "More Power!"

Herd Commander said...

excuse me tanga lang talaga ako madalas pero is W in J??? haha. sorry kung totoo...

galing nito!! pero
i have to disagree on the subject of the soul
kase(?) ang ganda
ng structure at flow ng code? mo

trulili ampoetry!
mehr pohwer! hehe

Sting Lacson said...

Hehehe thanks Hel Burt! Bagay pala sa'yo ang gay talk haha.

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"The Words come from the Divine; from the Muse the Idea. The Poet merely transcribes." ┼Old Sumerian proverb

(Kidding, I made that up. LOL)

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