A Personal Space

A place where Seymour went

for inspiration

the space he dug beneath his house

his cave

where elves helped produce

boolean one day and a fast

very fast Cray computer next

In this space a mind may roam

a cosmos

a realm contained in a domain

secure from intrusion

where a mind may ponder

cosmology’s constants

where a mind may

wander where it may

copyright © Dick Russell

                2018

Forty-Five Years On

they’d rather steal from you than buy from your store

their senses cue on stimuli others ignore

chanting dancing
on the warpath still

networks of networks intertwine

assaults subliminal

   touches unfelt

penetrations unnoticed

once great powers now city-states

defend their domains

those that rule

face resistance on real ground

but cyber’s fifth column

is inside the city

cannot be turned back

Dick Russell

copyright © 2018