My Computer wants to 'Verify if I am human' By Doug Holder

This is what my computer tells me--

Is this an insult, or rhetoric that it spews?

An ontological question,

Coming from some fuse

Sometimes during

my dark night

of the soul

I wonder

If I am embodied

or an ethereal ghost

But the morning light

Streams in my faith

From the bedroom window

yet again.

The computer has

A nefarious rotating circle

That surrounds my visual plane....

I check my pulse

I feel the flesh and blood,

The flashing synapses

Of my brain,

The crooked life lines

That are traced on my hands.

The circle stops

its maddening cycle...

The cold metal and steel

Pulsates with judgement

And gives me redemption

After the many years I have prayed

I have been saved....

Doug Holder is the co-president of the New England Poetry Club, and the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. He teaches creative writing at Endicott College, and his work has appeared in Molecule, Soul-lit, Worcester Review, South Florida Poetry Journal and more..

Co-President of the New England Poetry Club

Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene   http://dougholder.blogspot.com

Ibbetson Street Press  http://www.ibbetsonpress.com

Poet to Poet/Writer to Writer  http://www.poettopoetwritertowriter.blogspot.com

Doug Holder CV http://www.dougholderresume.blogspot.com

Doug Holder's Columns in The Somerville Times

https://www.thesomervilletimes.com/?s=%22Doug+Holder%22&x=0&y=0

Doug Holder's collection at the Internet Archive   https://archive.org/details/@dougholder