Posted on 12/10/2001 12:29:00 PM PST by Focault's Pendulum
Why am I logged in??? Why are any of us logged in?
On August 22, 2001 I posed the question Am I Logged In??? It was a simple question. It was a question making no accusation, nor absolving blame. It was constructed to be an imperfect (why else ask the question) iambic pentameter haiku. It was a query posed to those with analytic acumen, ownership of a pocket calculator, and the decency of fellow human beings who have the courtesy to close their tags. I felt sure that in kind, the responses would come from engineers, construction project managers, and at least one guy I know who works under the NY subway fixing stuff!
The question I fear, was too linear,and after a fashion, as is my wont, found myself pondering the allegorical, rather than the literal. This is certainly not a quest I take on lightly. Surely there must be at least the semblance of an explanation. I do so with right minded heart. I will seek the answers that allude me. I will do this forthwright and soberly. Especially since I have to deny my favorite adult beverage...Johnnie Walker Red, as the current world situation conjures up too many unshaven images.
Somewhere, my good friends, the answer awaits. Until then I remain always, your good, faithful, (and prescription med deprived),Focault
P.S. A quote from Robert Bolt's play, A Man For All Seasons...."If you must make trouble, make the sort of trouble that's expected."
Is he logged in?
Well, at least all the really important parts.
Nah, he was just the front man. The moose put him up to it.
My caluclator is not in my......POCKET!
Attention people of Amerikkka!
Burn the Cheese!
We are the Soy Bomb Nation, a global grassroots movement dedicated to reclaiming the media from the corporate cheesemongers, and disrupting their mindless cheese products with explosions of artistic expression and individuality.
Over my hands and soul washed in the mist
Of time and connection all burnt
Why am I logged in.
The raven cries into the night sky
Woken from his icy perch
His connection is fallen again
And he asks, he rasps in a imemorial chorus
Why oh why am I not logged in?
I ask into the sky
All filled with broken answers
And traces washed away
Why am I logged in.
For some distant time ahead I query myself
I seek and I seek like a moose
Thrown to the reed on the loch
But the answer is far, far, in the mist
May'n you tell me
Why am I logged in?
"To be, or not to be."
You know you could sell tickets to the filming, I think there would be a large audience for such theatrical work ;-)
I kept getting "overflow error" on my calculator. That's why I had to wing it. Was my answer correct or is that too one dimensional?
Now I have to go see a guy about a moose.
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