"Missing Variable" SLAM POETRY | Carel Gics

Sharing with y'all a poem I wrote that I performed during a Coffee house. Enjoy!
Ps. video cred to Maggie Mercado

Words:
System.out.print("Hello");
Am I understandable now?
What a methodical the language you speak
Vocabulary limited to x's and y's
Slopes, trajectories and cosines

All beyond foreign to my tongue
Inner machinations of your mind
Difficult to decode
Although not quite in the same way as mine

Have you spent much of time programming droids
that you yourself have become one?
When I hand you my poetry,
the humanity in you is tensioned with algorithms?
Searching a protocol
for the warm touch of hands
and how it becomes a metaphor
I see your technical glitch
And your failure to find a definition

On the contrary, my dictionary
is of life's highs and lows
Of photographs and colour schemes
Of yellow sunflowers and black moths

I speak of boundless thoughts
Of chaotic scribbles on a page
Of free flowing narratives
And of arriving in destinations late

I fear calculation
Distaste restraints in words
the refusal of a static screen to run
due to a lack of a semi colon

You find pleasure in language's accuracy
I, in the melodic sound in which it is said
You, admire a sentence's structure
While I, value the meaning and depth

We are opposing forces
that refuse to comprehend the other
Polar ends of the spectrum
Drawn lines that will never intersect

But maybe that's the beauty in it?
Alone, destructive
Together, counteracted

Even the sun's rays have the capacity to cause forest fires
While raging rivers can cause someone to drown
Yet together, burning flames can be extinguished
And the damaged soil brings life anew

So to summarize that poetic rampage

I really did think that
I'm the missing variable in your code
And you are the missing piece in my prose

System.exit (-1)

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