Charming My Ears Poem by Margaret Alice

Messed up Alet’s computer, Multiterm’s Narrator
kept on reading the screen, driving me wild with

Worry, what could it mean, it’s a virus, said the
secretary and smiled in vicious delight, the

Hard drive will be destroyed, I was annoyed, couldn’t
convince the experts to come along to fix the problem

Alet returned from a meeting, no sweat, she said - Multi-
term totally weird, I’ll kill off the ghostly voice; promptly did

I breathed in relief, usurping another’s computer a scary
game, all the same, she’s on the Internet while I’m not

Can’t look up terms, “syndicalistes, licenciement abusif,
gaz lacrymogènes, une mine de platine”, words singing

Without meaning, finding synthesized terms, ignoring lines,
spirit soaring on delightful frequencies charming my ears…