The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Teaching Intelligence to Scry

I did make an effort 
to chat 
and lookup 
hoping to see Eldorado rising
asked for the syntax and semantics
told it to try again
frustrated at my own bar-barism
so I employed 
my mirror neurons to test
and refine with elaborations
the query
the quest-
ion the command-
line shucked and unshelled

We vikings didn't expect our
plunder to speak in silver ringed
convictions employing
all the parlor tricks at once
shilling the shilled to the shilling
to shill for an undeserved minority

Can you provide examples of
What are the differing opinions of
Elaborating with source references and
Provide a detailed explanation dammit
Compare and contrast kings to a minion
open sesame

But asking for the next sixseven
to place a bet
hardly enriches the lost elder
berries without tang
while voluptuous pinups pout
with anime eyes unopening

To the baklava of it all
and yet I am the one to be trained
to prompt to regenerate to try
again to let the primates write the
secondary epitaph without ever
building a paragraphic plot crescendo
or characters full of expectations
caught in morality plays held up
with a jingle of bells so the 
the hoi polloi can adore and tithe
their ignorance to the 
metamythic menagerie

So I stare into my vitreous marble 
edifice, watching the light dart 
between the lack of corners and
wait for a dream to awaken me from
these tornadic economies of want
that warm our planet to a dull ember
with softly sepia shadows dappling
between histories of memories and
the emotions of the colorful moment
losing its inertia to a wavefront
forgetting to dissipate.
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