November 20, 2009

The Ballad of a Puppeteer

"I've got time to think about the beauty of a
thousand variations of the beating little wing
of a humming bird suspended in the aspic of the world."

The puppet master manipulates his characters in a sophisticated fashion, A classic red dress designed to twirl as the strings make the beauty prance. The puppet master pours the total of his efforts into a dead end passion, The stomp of tiny white dress shoes as strings force the prince to dance. The puppet master long ago fathomed his wonderful story would surmount, As wooden marionettes cross the stage in a one, two, one, two silent count. Under the moonlight in the loft of a tower he works through the night, Worn through years of use, do you think you can't imagine anything so lonely?

Time keeps dragging on.

Irrevocably yours,
~Chiko.

October 31, 2009

Zombies vs Ziggurat

I have awakened, coming to the realization that we undergo the equivalent of a Zombie Apocalypse annually on the exact same calender date. Fortunate for you, it is solely once per year instead of every night which these things emerge from the depths of their lairs.

Dawn marks the moment of their appearance, zombie-like underlings salivating at the mouth, tattered disguises and bags to tote their mass captured loot. Instincts tell these devils that their fodder lies within each house. Homeowners try in earnest to deter the buggers with skeletons, jack-o-lanterns and other assorted variations of voodoo hocus-pocus; how vain it truly is. Behind locked doors and closed curtains I hide deep within the confines of my dead house. The dreaded knocking announces their arrival and demands. The weaker-willed vagrants leave my front hall way void of their callings, while the more persistent dare to knock again.

In my ziggurat I could survive a dozen fort-nights, enduring wave after wave of zerglings, yet that would be tiring. On this damned be night I lay in wait, dog by my side and ps3 controller (with dual barrel semi-auto shotgun loaded on COD WaW of course) in hand, for the minions to be summoned to return by the parent beast or else the break of day chase them away with blinding light.

I move forward for I am Legend,
~Chiko!

September 15, 2009

Technological Age or the Age of the Unaware?

It has been noted through generations how offspring are generally more accustomed to the advancements in the current era in comparison to their parents who preceded the inventions' ingenuity. I had concluded that my generation was one to be particularly fond of personal computers, their programs, management of user defined delegations and perhaps even manipulating system properties to suit their preferences. The other day, I was sad to find this was not as true as I once believed.

During a specific class(which shall remain nameless for the sake of those who do chance to read my deluded rantings), I was surprised at the difficulty a mac presented to a number of pupils in regards to creating a folder system. The assignment was the first and presumably the most simple in contrast to those in the not-so-distant future. It asked of us to create files in folders, in folders with fellow folders, in a larger folder that grouped with other relevant large folders, in a parent folder, in a directory on a server. If one was to write out the address of the blank file located amongst those 20 or so folders, it would have looked like so:

server\directory\parent folder\general folder\category folder\sub category folder\uranoob.docx


I don't know if it was organizing the files inside a cascade of folders or the command C versus file>edit>copy within the controls of a mac, but something perplexed the quite minds of my peers. I do admit that my Jimney Cricket (the guy in my head you met a year and a half ago, for those who have read my older posts) was snickering at their tribulations.

I digress! I shall depart before my own convoluted whims produce a certain disdain towards my skewed opinions; and before torches and pitchforks (wielded by none other than the people in my section) yield me the hunted.

Lest we forget, I shall be famous one day!

Lastingly Yours,
~Chiko!

September 10, 2009

No Gods or Kings, Only Men

Kings in green, kings in gold,
Kings who live to be so old.
Mothers cry, while soldiers die;
Since kings just sit on their thrones.

I see a king who wears a crown; wears a mask; wears a frown.

Kings be bold, kings be brittle.
Kings are made to do so little.
Because all the kings horses
and all the kings men,
Are obliged to do his laundry again.

King of the castle is such a hassel,
~Chiko \^^^/

September 9, 2009

Message in a Bottle

I wish I could pronounce my words but hesitations are too shy.
Oh my dear love, to stutter and stammer all the reasons why.
So instead I cast my latent letter out across a murky sea,
For when you walked away, you stole a piece of me.

Remodel, everything has been done.
La la la la la la la la la la.

No one has a face left to blame,
~Chiko =/