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Warren Longmire: Ready Player One

October 28, 2014 by PBQ

How many cried when the 
avatar floats red across
the monotone skyline?

The mastered physics fluttering your 
fabric made of math?

You might.

When thumbstick millimeter becomes          a gait toward simulated sun.

The moment
tutorial is a muscle memory.

When pausing could kill a world.

When the orchestration echoes you and
          swells like a gland would.

Congratulations! You have seen 
everything.

This gut wrench triggered
by the x button

is brought to you by
sony, chess and the first kid chimp that thought

acting like a silverback
could make a silly playmate
go dumb.

Filed Under: Contributors 90, Issue 90, Poetry, Poetry 90 Tagged With: Contributors 90, Poetry, Poetry 90, Warren Longmire

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