FORGIVENESS, IN MACHINE CODE
He begins to think
That forgiveness is more
Than just a memory location
Erased. Perhaps
There is something to keeping,
At least in secondary storage,
The log of a malfunction,
The analytical intensity
Of its final resolution,
The address reference to recovering
The chain of events that
In turn
Can be used
To upgrade operating tolerances,
Though it won’t be.
Ken Poyner lives in the lower right hand corner of Virginia , with his power-lifter wife and a number of house animals. His 2013 e-book, “Constant Animals”, 42 brief but unruly fictions, is available at all the various e-book sites, and you should go buy it so he does not have to haunt you. Recent work is out in Corium, Analog Science Fiction, Spittoon, Poet Lore, Mobius and many other places.
