This poem is in tribute to today’s initial public offering of Twitter:
Twittering Away – Owed to IPO’d
Is there a longing beyond
The public stocks
IPO’d
Buy and buy
The Alpha and Beta of existence
Reduced to 140 characters or less
Hovering around tiny luminaries
Passing flesh and mortar like gas
A lusty err to some backwards throne
The writing on the wall
Its singular accomplishment
Bringing the end nearer the beginning
Posing as prose
Vainly bard
To the twitter’s fear
Like the teeniest scandal
In the wind
Exercising their ABBs
As won voidable six-pack
Dreams taken by whizzes
Raining in banality
Hailing nitwits
Flailing to put sole
Too their brevity
A game of hash tag
With a phony high
Never getting off
What’s beneath them
Trumped up charges
Powering a virtual reality
Their fullish ways
Dealing only
In fractions
Courting daft years
As married to miss demeanors
A puerile of grate value
Not just
For characters shy
Of simply being gross
Twittering away
Your life
In the palm of your hand
Exposing your briefs to the world
The embarrassing lengths
Willing to disclose
In heiring your dirty laundry
To the whirled
This poem is a tribute to a technology infrastructure that serves as a superhighway to the inane. Of course, I’m slamming it ode school! I’m surfing the vapids, because this insipid superhighway is littered with abbreviated lives, and perhaps the farthest thing possible from the novel! Twitter is appropriately named. Humanity flits about distracted by all but the punyest ventures. Here is to trading up from private capital to the capitol of privates! So beat it! Unsuccessfully littering, your company papers and your loan company are strewn with thousands of public heirs. Congratulations, you’ve graduated from matriculating in class, to a mere one hand out from a classless society. In the face of such inaneness, I must admit: IPO’d. Still, I for won, am not buying it.
NOTE: there is a very obscure pun in this poem. ABB is the stock symbol for a robotics company. I think that they build them with 100% irony — you can rust assured.
