The Life of A Carbon Copy

A poem about how times change

Amy Mayes
1 min readApr 20, 2014

Legions of tight smiled professionals needed me.
I used to be stored and loved like a comforter.

My friend’s fresh navy complexion pressed
And was made a part of me.

Sometimes my information was faint;
Sometimes a special pressure so true.

I felt important.
I was important.
Scores upon scored of records…

Dear, what’s left of us?

Still official, yes;
We’re still the security, still sensible.

But, we’re not actually there, are we?

Long gone are the months of slow sleep until
Nimble deftness chose and smoothed.

We’re a series of 001010 now.
I’m sure we were better in blue before, dear. Binary doesn’t suit.

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