bernie in love

 

spring sprang

when i fell for

ananova

the world's first virtual newscaster

that delectable daisy of digital dna

designed to deliver the news

ananova

enigmatic

angelic

an

a

no

va

soft

said i

what light through yonder

windows two thousand breaks

tis the millennium

and ananova

is the link

her eyes are blackening pools

her lips marsala wine

her mind unending mysteries of bits and bytes

bernie

exclamation point

snap out of it

came a sternly voice

breaking my roachly reverie

and boss

there stood boomer

the folksinging flea

brows knit

arms crossed

hellbent

on knocking sense into me

listen up

boomer boomed

he picked up his guitar

and started to sing

ooooh she s a dot com girl

she s been livin in her dot com world

bet you'd never guess the reason why

she d never ever have a roachly guy

but boomer

i protested

this is the face

that launched a thousand chips

a beautiful bounty of the best

of all women

how could i not be smitten

with

ananova

oh bernie

boomer sighed

love is more than screen deep

surely your insect instincts

are jingringling a warning

think about it

your ananova has put the

hy

in hype

here is a newscaster

already writ up large in

usa today and just about

everywhere elsewhere today

and she has yet to give her

first news report

but but but boomer

i sputtered

and isn t it also

odd

interrupted the flea

that ananova will deliver

news that is supposed to be

the real thing

when she herself

is nothing more than

a concoction of

entertainingly engineered electrons

now hold on

i snapped

at least ananova is honest

about her digital self

unlike

regular tv newscasters

those goofy phony money grubbing

hair sprayed bags of protoplasm

who pretend to dig for news

my angel ananova

can work

twenty four seven

as they say

never tiring

never sleeping

as the news itself never sleeps

but bernie

worried my flea brained friend

remember your media critic training

when in doubt

check it out

perchance i will

i say

but boss

i must admit

not knowing her

makes her all the more appealing

from what i do see

she is a lot like me

a complex interior

shelled over by an exterior

not of her own making

come to think of it

that could describe

us all

-- bernie