Digital Palimpsest

under the zeros behind the ones

beyond the hexadecimal string

of sixteen not quite infinite characters

scratched on the surface of the hard disc

from your failed apricot that couldnt

prove that apples werent the only fruit

is the first thing you ever wrote

in bangor or birmingham or bude

best forgotten or forever hid

by reformatting and defection

to the big blue and its blue screen

of dearth in respect of ideas

you just cant read it behind

all that technological obfuscation

and perhaps thats just as well