Monopolizing the cloud

Simon, a laid off software engineer, takes to writing poetry.

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Simon: Listen!

I jostled with the laid-off crowd

Exiting the company gate,

Then all at once I saw the cloud

Smugly smiling, we’re all too late.

 Rajiv: Sounds familiar…

 Simon: A reworking of... I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils...

Rajiv: The original sounds more, what, timeless? What’s it all mean?

 

Simon: The cloud is a metaphor.

 

Rajiv: For?

 

Simon: For the Internet. For the Internet being taken over by some entrepreneur. Mega-entrepreneur.

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