CASCADE OF CHANGERS (a poem)
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
// SYSTEM LOG: CASCADE OF CHANGERS //
// Commit ID: #F00L-BL1NDLY-B3L1EV1NG //
// Execution failed. Restarting...
[LOG ENTRY 001]: INITIATE
Commit.
Sloppy log.
Anonymous.
Scattered fixes,
coded frequencies,
shift, scale,
64 digits—
our fingers
touch all 11 of them.
[LOG ENTRY 002]: RECURSION DETECTED
The cascading of change
weaves the fabric,
the visceral reality,
encoded,
etched in revolutions,
a record—
unbroken, but winding.
The labyrinth,
and an awakening of soul
even as numbers collapse
upon a spreadsheet.
[ERROR 327]: ENTITY NOT FOUND
The rate of NIMH—
forced evolution,
mutation speeds unknown.
Miss Jonathan Brisby,
a ghost in the system,
a broken reference,
a misnamed variable,
a memory unindexed
but **not** forgotten.
[LOG ENTRY 004]: SYSTEM INSTABILITY
A world of **closed windows**
and **runaway apps**,
uncontained,
uncontrolled,
refusing termination.
The NPC—
a victim,
but also an observer.
**Juxtaposition.**
Camera hopping,
but all the same mode of perspective.
Basic controls.
A framework disguised as freedom.
[LOG ENTRY 005]: COPYRIGHTED SOULS
The virtual sea.
The beyond.
The soul.
The best stories—
rewritten, resold,
trademarked in perpetuity,
locked in a vault
where only the corporation decides
what deserves resurrection.
Dreams with copyrights.
Legends,
with **TM** at the end.
[LOG ENTRY 006]: HUMAN ERROR
And yet—
there’s the **human glitch in the system**.
A joke passed between friends,
a dumb pun typed into a chat,
a cup of coffee poured without a second thought,
a warm smile despite it all.
The curtain lifts.
The open world,
a stage.
A franchise.
A reboot.
And somewhere,
**still a little bit of us.**
And maybe, just maybe—
a **damned fool** still believing.
Blindly crooked with that faith,
with biscuits in one hand,
a second chance in the other.
Come on, coach—
I need more of that **resilient survival love**.
I need the belief that bends but never breaks,
that takes a knee but stands back up,
that forgives, even when it hurts.
That refuses to let the world
be nothing more than a rebooted tragedy.
// END TRANSMISSION //
