[New-Poetry] God App

[jforjames at aol.com]

God App


Thus far over 400 million people
have downloaded the God App.
You can choose various icons 
for the God App, like a burning bush
or a cloud shot through with light.
The God App doesn’t really 
do anything. It’s just there 
on your screen should you need it. 
If you touch it, it asks: “Do you 
want to pray now?” After a few seconds 
you are prompted, FINISH & SEND?. 
Once sent, the word RECEIVED 
comes back as confirmation, 
which is comforting. It’s said that
the app was developed by a company
called primemover.com, a virtual
company of no fixed address. 
I’m almost sure, residing where it does 
on a server farm somewhere, the God App 
must feel almost omniscient, 
I’m certain it can hear a billion voices all 
at once, and yet parse each sentence 
down to syllable, unto bit. And it always 
knows where it is because, unlike GPS, 
it’s everywhere all at once, a compass rose 
window, visionary, locked into the Hubble 
as it hovers without horizons above the earth.
                                            I have noticed,
too, that sometimes my phone seems to come on
all by itself, sitting there in the dark 
on the bedside table. When I reach for it, 
it flashes, and the screen goes dark.


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