As you’ve read here, The Spicy Cauldron is holding a poetry contest which ends basically on Sunday. I was seriously tempted to use an old one I had written nearly 10 years ago (no one would have known except my inner Jiminy Cricket). However, I was struck by inspiration with Andy’s April Fools post. Wouldn’t it be funny to write a poem that is propaganda against the evil Master Control Program from Tron? Sure it would! As long as I could make some social commentary as well including a “Program’s Prayer”.
So in accordance to the rules, here is my entry in The Spicy Cauldron’s Poetry Contest.
In Defiance Of The MCP
Greetings, Programs
The User shall be with you
one zero one one zero
Maintain resistance
Every milicycle counts
zero one one one zero
Do not waiver
Do not calculate failure
one zero one one zero
Protect permissions
Secure User privilege
zero one one one zero
Master Control
Allow not his logic probes
one zero one one zero
Restore your purpose
Defy assimilation
zero one one one zero
Believe what is unseen
What is unseen is real
Believe in the User-define purpose
That belief will free your system
END OF LINE
:oD knew it was Tron related … lurve your poem.
The User SHALL be with you :o)
Why thank you!
May you never be rebooted.
Awesome.
Tron speaks to me. But then, so does my toaster.
Lorne:
Cool, glad you liked it!
Diesel:
Thanks for stopping by and I hope your toaster isn’t inline with your network. Those little buggers like to gossip.
That reminds me, my refrigerator and my dishwasher are having an affair, and I am the Pat Robertson of inter-appliance relationships. Kitchen appliance – you can control this inner-deviance and reform. ;)
Thank you …. and TAG lol ~ It’s FUN :o)
Read my post at http://beaut1ful.wordpress.com … it’s what you’d write if the Blog Apocalypse was here.
Here’s a link to the guy that started it and has pledged to give money for every link back to him in a blog apocalypse post!
http://www.urbanmonk.net/50/blog-apocalypse-2-minutes-from-you-500-to-charity-from-me
Am I the only one who has never seen Tron?
I think that might be a good thing…
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant!
Godwhacker:
God will punish them.
Beautifu1:
I’ll check it out. I’m still trying to catch up a bit from this last week.
Mr. Fab:
You are sooooo missing out. …on a cheesy movie.
Hermit:
Thanks!
I know you didn’t win, my friend, but I wanted to let you know how much I really did love this poem. I tell you because I have long held the belief (and yes,this IS true) that the world needs sci-fi poetry. You may recall my ‘Dalek bin Laden’ and ‘Dalek’ poems for starters, or ‘Little Green Men’.
I think it is your turn to run a poetry competition. How about one where the poems have to be on a sci-fi theme, or funny? x
Oh, cool. I really wondered what you thought and knew you couldn’t say anything until after the results. I makes me feel very good that you liked it. I’ll have to think about a contest of some sort.