<div>Giovanni, I just want to say how much I enjoyed your poem.  You definitely have talent as a poet!  I look forward to your next effort...</div>
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<div>John  : )<br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2012/2/19 Giovanni Santostasi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gsantostasi@gmail.com">gsantostasi@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">Cybernetic Love Poem</span><br style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">
<span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">Why should I want you only with mortal flesh?</span><br style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">
<span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">When a thousand rotating electronic fingers</span><br style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">
<span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">Could caress you and make you vibrate</span><br style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">
<span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">As an instrument of pleasure and cosmic joy?</span><br style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">
<span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">May I be our immortal cyborg of love, </span><br style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">
<span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">With a pulsating heart</span><br style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">
<span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">Made of fiber optics and a billion transistors</span><br style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">
<span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">All lighted up at the sight of you form </span><br style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">
<span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">Rejoicing in the calculation</span><br style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">
<span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:18px;DISPLAY:inline;FONT-FAMILY:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(51,51,51);FONT-SIZE:13px">Of the cube root of your beauty<br>Nanobots navigating in my arteries <br>
Bringing extra oxygen to my vital <br>Bioengineered organs <br>To feel life in a million times <br>Empowered self<br>Bringing you in my shiny silicon mind<br>In a colorful swirl of nourishing <br>Information that encodes <br>
The most distilled part <br>Of your essence</span> <br><br>
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