NEOLITHICA

I scratch my letters on phosphors
These days
With carefully directed cathode rays
But persistence of vision
Is just an illusion.

Still I would be recognized 
By cave dwellers
As just another painter of mammoth hunts
Calling on some sort 
Of sympathetic magic
Slightly comic, somewhat tragic
To be making crude likenesses
To stand for something more
Order from chaos in a way.
Such a crude semblance of control:
Recording what was
Or what I want to be,
Tapping on my keyboard,
Or scratching on rocks.

Whichever way I leave my mark,
I'm still hunkering in the dark
And drawing on the walls.

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