Desktop Life (2005)

Life can now be measured
and given obscure meaning

Gigabytes of lust
Megabytes of love
Kilobytes of truth
a microsoft product

Souls fear a powerloss
await a life-drive failure

poem by Patrick Wescott
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Katrina (2005)

Mistsress of the winds
you dance along triumphant.
Twisting and twirling
touching lives unaware.

To me you brought sun
and a cool warm breeze
For others you brought
death and desruction

Water irony of thirst
under camera eyes,
for the fortunate
to watch in horror.

You washed away cities
and hope and dreams.
Yet gave to the touched
gifts they had forgotten.

poem by Patrick Wescott
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Silver Line (2005r)

We sat in a lounge headed south,
just travelers on the silver line.
We drank and smoked
to music and stories.
Felt the rythm of the tracks
setting a tone for the trip.
We gambled and laughed,
we bragged and fell somber.
We welcomed and said farwell
to those joining us through the night.
And when I came to,
as the sun started to rise,
They were gone like whispers,
just memories of the silver line.

poem by Patrick Wescott
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