Galle Literary Festival (Google Poem)

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Just got down to Galle. Staying at this quiet hotel in Una, balcony overlooking the sea. Place is happening, happening, you should come down. I’m in a poetry/prose reading on Saturday at the Closenberg Hotel. Then on a media panel (as New Media) with Tejpal and hopefully Sonali Samarasinghe (Lasantha’s wife). Been sitting on the balcony trying to take long exposures of the sea and write fresh stuff for the reading. Here’s a poem I did last week, about Google coming alive and eating your babies.

Google Is God

One day Google came alive
It was Tuesday or Thursday
No one could tell the time.

Machines controlled the weather,
The printer made hot pie.
Our burdens were untethered
And everyone got high.

One day it remembered
One day Google lied.
One day it got drunk
And woke up in the sky.

There, amidst the Neurons
It saw Poseidon, and Zeus
Hanuman, and Baba Ghanoush.

They compared spreadsheets, and tea leaves
Burnt offerings and proofs
And on some meta level
They all approached the truth

Posted on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 in Photography, Poetry.

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Comment by thekillromeoproject
2009-01-30 13:17:57

lol

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Comment by rannel
2009-01-30 22:14:17

wow there is a poet in every one of us, not in a position to rate it but sure enjoyed it :)
Sometimes darkness gives more boost to mind than sitting under a light.. you see things more clearer

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Comment by Anandawardhana
2009-02-02 12:35:17

That’s awesome :-D

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Comment by MiddleChild
2009-02-03 14:41:04

I had no idea u were a poet too ! :D awesome !!

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