Vanitas Selfie and Poem

Vanitas Selfie and Poem

Nicholas Arce

Printer
Sweet precision surrounds your being
Letting pen touch paper as a simulation.
Who are you? Picasso? Leonardo?
Certainly your sharp lines and ink cartridges
cannot be as good as Office Depot promised?
Fed a steady diet of paper,
don't you know too much fiber can be bad for you?
You help, with your arms connected to ports,
docking like a cruise ship after a long journey.
Or a speedboat coming in to the bay,
but the boat is coming in too fast...
It crashes.
The paper is crumbled.
Blood is everywhere.
Ink in the ocean.
Are you dead?
Come back to me.
Surgery?
I promise this won't hurt,
its just a
paper jam.

Nicholas Arce