Wednesday, April 11, 2012

metadata

NaPoWriMo Day 11, Poem 13/30: Taking inspiration from a technical document at work.


metadata

enhanced
i see your formalized
form
hard-edged in the fluorescent
 
this is the lowest level of
abstraction
you say
 
we are basic compared
to information and
knowledge
 
clearly you've never been
 
you can give the explicit
description but only
of desired relationships
of any abstract
thing
that exists or did or
might
 
i tell you love is
not
in the interpretation of data
 
but you say it increases
she who receives it
that its value is
its ability to affect
an outcome
 
not an outcome
i know
and when i touch you i think
your surfaces will slice
me through
 
we are more
complex
than data about
data

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