For Dinesh G. Dutt
I’m thinking
for a brain partitioned — non-consistent
that repeatedly
drops packets as it lacks a fully connected network
well-intended candy wrappers people who say pronouns can lie crackpots on Byzantine platforms
decked out with extraneous existences flagrantly exposed to malignant scrutiny slashing significance from protocols
stock vacation images undeterred by ancient understandings kept alive by opaque handshakes
every brusque weekly commonplace furiously hidden from tabulation heaving highly compressed projectiles
They tunnel funny payloads
within fragments incompletely formed
If I must
placing backpressure at moments of extreme disconnect
on too promiscuous nodes not in harmony with today’s traffic
can the network survive can the network survive can the network survive can the network survive can the network survive
This poem was published in Cloud Native Data Center Networking, by Dinesh G. Dutt, published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., November 2019.
Andy Oram
August 29, 2019