2010/11/22 Crocodile Tears Poem by Margaret Alice

Repeating the same routine administrative processes
led to Paranoid Android Depression, repeating the
same steps for millions of documents caused
tears spilling on the paper in front of me

Hunted on the Internet, found the Arabian letter ‘hamza’
is written alone or with a carrier, becoming a diacritic -
gone the feeling of desperation in the wonder of
written Arabic, the crocodile is happy to play

In a Wonderland of New Ideas, I must indulge it to calm
its restless spirit and get the Little Alien in my head to
continue doing routine work, after this respite the
reptile will chew on this new information

And stop crying crocodile tears for having to sit still
without learning new things, repetition changes
the primitive reptile into a life-destroying force
enclosed within my head…