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David Selzer is a writer of poetry, prose fiction, screenplays and stage plays. He embraces digital platforms to share his work of more than fifty years… READ MORE
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THE CYBER DEAD
‘Knock-knock-knockin’ on Heaven’s door,’ a busker
began to sing near to the ice cream kiosk,
just after I had left the public toilet,
its adamantine urinals made
in Burnley. I walked beneath the lime trees,
along the embankment. The brown river
swirled in spate, high with rains from the remnants
of Atlantic storms breaking on shorn
and distant mountains. I thought of those dead friends –
their social media accounts intestate –
forever alive, and orbiting
eternally in cyber space, so close
yet still and always forlornly ‘Knock-knock-
knockin’ on Heaven’s door’.
3 responses to “THE CYBER DEAD”
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Such a rich cornucopia of reference and description. Oh, to walk in England with you daily!
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My friend Rudy Wurlitzer says he co-wrote the lyrics to that song with B. Dylan in a stormy flight from Durango to Mexico City. He received no credit. Thus is the writer’s lot!
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Not sure about you, but the few times I’ve had to enter a recently dead person’s room, their clothes somehow frightened me, as if they had become heavy ghosts. The social media we leave behind is a bit similar.
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