The Undersea World of Online Gaming
The Undersea World of Online Gaming by Carey Lenehan
Fish swim to the surface of a sea
alien in all senses,
a flashing, pop-up, battle-bannered Ocean
of GAMERS
Here lies
the sandy bottom of the Internet,
the Dark under-Side
Floating in the browned out depths,
is a world
unknown to us,
to the bright, daytime users,
the Richard and Judy viewers, internet consumers,
we shoppers, researchers, looking for the Parenting Channel.
Like Soho, both gaudy and soiled, like an aging disco ball,
Daring, but probably harmless,
a redlight zone so enticing...
Online Gamers are the children of the night....
Quake me. Shake me.... Medal my honour...
Here lie our kids and the world's disaffected loners,
Fighting wars won and lost long, long ago,
over and over, and over...
Blazing a trail through the darknight sky!
Killing and being killed
Over, and Over,
and Over again.....
No pain. No gain, just Game.
Swimming in the sea of Online Gaming Night
I am aware that the depths are deeper than I can ever know
That sharks swim amongst the tiny fishes,
looking for a weakness, a chink, a break
in the firewall, a chance to seize real prey, and
spray,
flesh, blood, bone,
Wolfenstein Server... anyone home....?
Beneath the silt, beneath the muddy bottom of
Lara Crofting Predator,
there is yet more,
crust and skin, oozing fluid, a word that slips,
to the corner of a screaming screen... pornography
Where the sea serpents will eat you all up.
Let me in to swim, with the big, bad barracudas.
I want to die. Electronically
Over and Over
Again, and again, and again.The Undersea World of Online Gaming The Undersea World of Online Gaming
By Carey Lenehan
© 2008 Carey Lenehan
(All rights reserved)
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