In Toto

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In Toto

My face is an "error".
It "could not be found".
On this site,
with modern technology,
it still was too much
"too big a file";
a noiseless sound.

Upload and modify,
with every attempt
I did try
to show myself
in my best light.
I gave it a good fight.

I cannot show myself,
despite my attempts.
I'm like the three stooges;
except I'm the fourth one, Shemp.

When it comes to connectivity
and identity
it is very frustrating
to achieve neither
due to technology.

My pencil never talks back
or questions what it, or I,
lacks.

You'll just have to accept that I exist,
sans photo,
I am in toto.

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icu2 commented on In Toto

01-28-2010

Nice poem. I love a poem that makes me feel amused. They are the best kind. I posted my picture just fine, but when I tried to download into my file of pictures that was another story and it took me a while also.

am2anangel commented on In Toto

06-18-2009

great sense of humor. All this from one battle to include your picture, it's amazing what we artists can do with too much thought. lol! That aside I enjoyed the flow of this piece.

wheelsal commented on In Toto

06-16-2009

What a sense of humor. Most poems are filled with pathos. It is good to not take yourself toooooooooooooo seriously. It is also a good poem.

CongoNetherland

06/16/2009

Thanks! Yeah, this site "vexed" me when I tried to post my pic, and somehow I learn how to speak Latin when I am vexed. ;) It isn't polished or planned. Just a one time visceral firing off; like most of what I write (though usually I write four drafts starting with this one as the nucleus). Nice to meet you! :) I do like humor and rhyme when it comes to words, and pathos is great but often it becomes a stereotype or just out and out mimicry. Nobody needs a poor retelling of a story that wasn't true in the first place, is my belief.

jademelissa74 commented on In Toto

06-16-2009

Wonderfully written :)) Do not be alarmed, I struggled with my photo for quite some time as well. Keep on trying though :)) Thank you so much for sharing!

CongoNetherland

06/16/2009

Thank you. It's a bit trite, but this stupid system vexed me. You can always tell that, because somehow I learn how to speak in Latin when I'm vexed . . .

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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