That Sanity be Kept

That sanity be kept I sit at open windows
Regard the web, make obtrusive comment on the irc
Sit at open windows in my shirt
And let the traffic pass, the diodes shine,
The programs run, the media player keep in tune,
For sanity must be preserved.

Thinking of September, I sit and watch the forums
Where children play in all their trolliness,
and old beards on the littered news
absorb the daily spam.

The sweet subcultural music from a hundred peers
comes softly to my ears. The darknets move bits and bytes.

I mark the couples talking dirty on-channel,
Observe their smileys,
Sweet invitations and inventions,
See them lend love illustration
By ascii art and TLA
I watch them curiously, detect beneath the laughs
What stands for grief, a vague bewilderment
At things not turning right.

I sit at open windows in my shirt,
Observe, like some Jehovah of the 'net
What passes by, that sanity be kept.

 - bastardization of Dylan Thomas by Mikko Rauhala