VIRTUAL GIRLFRIEND/BOYFRIEND:
The earth is thick with rain, rich brown near black.
Dirt tracks look healthy, alive, their edges dusty
like gravy powder.
Something in the ground is dancing, preparing rhythms
for Spring or is it that I’m just in a good mood?
Fingers crossed it’s good news from the hospital,
the music becomes secondary to the welfare of friends.
The phone rings, connecting us to the land of the rising sun,
familiar voices of loyal friends on the other side of the
world making sweet vibrations in our ears – Q&A’s with the
papers & online brethren to start the day – breakfast mouthfuls
between calls. Sending love & good vibrations from
the prairies of Essex to the nations of the world.
(K)
Karl Hyde 
Smiles…warm, like freshed baked fluffy cupcakes…..with bright pink frosting! A girl walks by with roses clutched tightly in her hand…. flowers dancing…dinner traffic…candy hearts…the stop light’s red glow shimmers on the sidewalk…Bright…. looks like an illuminated red carpet…..love is everywhere tonight!
I actually had an electronic boyfriend who wrote on Valentine’s to tell me that I needed to get real with someone
I find myself morphing into those that just type, tethered to a screen.
Binary love hurts just the same. Its just as exhilarating.