A Light in the Mirror

So, I’ve completed today the first of what may be a few of these interactive poems. This is a poem written in what is called a Batch File. It runs on windows machines, and yes, it is a form of executable file hand written. Below is a copy of the code for those who don’t trust that I won’t write files that are viruses. There be nothing malicious here. It is all echo commands, pause commands, and a single start command which will open your browser to take you to, well, kind of a surprise.

 

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@echo off

echo.

color 0A

echo *Batch*, A Batchfile interactive Poem by B.L. McGarr

echo ©2011 B.L. McGarr, All Rights Reserved (Includes Coding and Poem)

echo.

echo Alive with the rays of the sun

echo Alive with beams of the moon

echo I am here

echo Where are you?

echo.

echo I walk this path alone

echo I go from work to home

echo I am here

echo Where are you?

echo.

pause

echo running script and command

echo running like mad

echo press any key to continue…

echo so that’s what I’ve done

echo.

echo routine is routine is routine

echo and each time I think I’ve broken it

echo I find I’ve fallend behind again

echo and I find I’m alone again

echo.

echo Surrounded by a million, billion people

echo all going about their business, and yet, I am a singularity

echo I am here

echo where are you?

echo.

echo Melancholy mind plays tricks

echo I am my own devil

echo Saboteur, delinquent

echo Sets it up, and destroy

echo.

echo human emotions, human fear

echo human sadness, human joy

echo we all bear

echo we all survive

echo.

pause

color 0C

echo I am here

echo where are you?

echo let’s find ourselves

echo once again

pauses

tart http://goo.gl/maps/tAsk

pause

echo Thanks for reading. If you’d like to view this as code, open this in Notepad or a similar basic text program.

pause