Rebooted

*an original poem by Marie-Therese Knepper

Rebooted

I went to see a doctor who

referred me to a tech

Being stuck in mid-life pause

I figured - what the heck

I'll go and see the techie

hear what he has to say

After all, when it comes to me

no price's too high to pay 

He told me "It's your motherboard.

You hearin' what I'm sayin'?

Somehow you got stuck in rewind

when life you should be playin'."

I looked at him, confounded.

"What'd you mean?" I said at last

"I mean," he said not meanly,

"you've been livin' in your past.

"Dude, you got a virus

Somewhere back in time

when you were young, is my best guess

A parental paradigm

"You've got it bad, so bad in

fact, I'll wave my standard fee

Do exactly what I tell you

and you will be set free."

We sat and talked and searched until

we knew we'd found the cure

It'd be safe for me to enter

My whole system'd be restored.

I'm all backed-up and running now!

To be sure I don't repeat

the past now in my future:

all that trash stays in delete.

 Marie-Therese Knepper

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