Ghazal: Rendezvous Online

Dating and dalliance on the Net

“Digital Identity 5” by easegill is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

I’m ready to rendezvous online.
Let’s go to Timbuktu online.

Squawk cockatoo to a cockapoo
or date a kinkajou online.

The boobs of girl avatars are bombs.
(He calls himself ‘Lulu’ online).

Coo-coo cuckoo, cook cordon bleu.
YouTube a barbecue online.

Need a skin game? Pick your ink.
Wahoo Tattoo’s for you, online.

Try the tarot, digital runes –
the algorithm guru online.

Update your modus operandi;
speak Urdu Ubuntu online.

“Siri, find me Amazon
to buy Zulu shampoo online.”

“Google Mini, what’s the time?”
dear AI ingénue online.

Twitter, Bonehead, feeds on you.
Past lives are déjà vu online.

Enter the Ghazal

Origins

7th century Arabic; 8th century Persian, then an onward march through Arabic; Hebrew and Andalusi Romance in Moorish Spain; West African Hausa and Fula; Ottoman…