June 2016
John Kropf
kropferama@gmail.com
kropferama@gmail.com
I grew up in small town Ohio and will always feel like a Midwesterner but live in Arlington, Virginia with a wife, daughter, a cat and a dog. My credits include a Certificate of Laughter from the DC Improv Comedy Club and first place in my fifth grade school hobby contest. If you'd like to see more of my poems and ideas about books, I keep a blog on an unscheduled basis,http://compulsivelyaimless.blogspot.com/
Free Information
Technologists say information wants to be free
Tyrants want information kept under lock and key
Information lives best in its natural habitat
running wild
in giant herds
like wildebeests
on the African Savannah
Who would want mass-produced
information from industrial information farms
rounded up and branded,
processed and packaged and
served with unknown ingredients?
We need free-range, organic information
allowed to grow and roam
unimpeded, uncorrupted.
That's the information for us.
Your Call Is Very Important to Us
I know they think
of little else but
my call.
So important
it can’t be
trusted to unreliable humans.
Computer generated
almost human
transmissions that deliver sincerity.
That’s the sound of
automated caring.
Growing Pains
Everything
is
smaller
screens
tweets
attention
except
information
now
unleashed.
©2016 John Kropf