<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461068" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Suspended sentence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">and while children, to whom<br>the future’s still a playground, <br>are complicit in computers’ fantasies, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">not so this adult; scared<br>witless, that one wrong button pressed<br>will spell oblivion; a lifetime’s guilt<br>stirred by the one word ERROR! in its deadly box; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then that solemn judgment that<br>‘this computer has committed<br>an illegal act’ – so that I go<br>to the window, switch out the light, <br>and around the curtain look for that<br>dark unmarked car across the way with its two<br>immobile figures frozen in a mindless anonymity<br>which could not be more suspicious –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and now it tells me in unrolling words that<br>‘an uninterrupted playback will commence<br>in more than one day’ – and life’s put on hold, <br>the present time is stopped, and all our yesterdays<br>are to be fast-backwarded, as it’s said<br>may happen at the moment of our death; <br>no longer are those sci-fi films the mind’s brief game; <br>today I am to live in no placed place<br>nor now-timed time; and as tomorrow’s dawn<br>breaks grey and fearful, outside time itself, <br>the playback of my puny life will roll…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">time (so to speak) for final cyber-irony: <br>press Start to stop this virtual memory’s oblivion, <br>and wonder if Prince Hamlet felt like this.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461068" data-title="Suspended sentence de Michael Shepherd" data-description="and while children, to whom the future’s still a playground, are complicit in computers’ fantasies, not so this adult; scared witless, that one wrong button pressed will spell oblivion; a lifetime’s guilt stirred by the one word ERROR! in..."></div> </div> </div>

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