Contractor 014352

Precious contractor 014352

turn up your shadowed chin

and weary gaze

from this infinite jigsaw of whiteness.

You are so much more

than the sum of your digits

the street on which you live

the date from which you grew

the darlings in your care. 

Helpful though they may be

our systems reward clarity

and numbers once landed man on the moon.

But so your data will guide you

through the ether

through binary

to another kind of moon,

one with carpets and water coolers.

Only not today. 

My friend, you deserve better

bedspreads from Persian silk

pillows of Egyptian cotton

these are the spreadsheets

to which you belong!

Soon you will be there, nestled

within white folds, held

by tender arms, approved

within black lines

the power of data.

And if not by the fall of today's sun 

then perhaps tomorrow's,

have patience contractor 014352

your time will come.