[Newspoetry] poem about Bill

[William Gillespie]

Here's today's poem from the other poem-a-day site, the professional
well-funded dry academic one. (Bad site envy, sorry) Today's poem has an
edge to it:

 http://www.poems.com/today.htm

           Us

           In the night sometimes even Mr. Gates must wake up
           aware that he's more than machinery made of meat,
           imponderable billions swirling overhead in darkness.
           Whose imagination would fail to shape anything
           better for all than a cybertech Xanadu, dribbling

           crumbs of self-serving charity? Would the food of that
           power stink in your hands like burnt hair? It's hard
           to avoid being who you are, and everyone suffers,
           even the rich, as everyone knows, but we wonder
           what drug could help us sleep like that — and want some.

-Dan Howell

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