• Deceptichum
    40•4 months ago

    Hello JPEG, my old friend
    I’ve come to post you again
    Because a vision softly blurring
    Left its compression while I was sleeping
    And the vision that was planted in my brain
    Still remains within the artifacts of JPEG

    • C3DEnglish
      19•4 months ago

      In restless dreams I browsed alone
      Narrow memes of low quality
      'Neath the halo of a monitor
      I turned my eyes to the blurry screen
      When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a pixel light
      That split the night
      And touched the artifacts of JPEG

      And in the naked light I saw
      Ten thousand memes, maybe more
      People reposting without sharing
      People uploading without caring
      People posting things that eyes once saw
      And no one dared
      Disturb the artifacts of JPEG

      “Fools”, said I, “You do not know
      JPEG like a cancer grows
      Hear my words that I might teach you
      Take my files that I might reach you”
      But my words, like silent raindrops, fell
      And echoed in the blur of JPEG

      And the people bowed and prayed
      To the JPEG god they made
      And the website flashed out its repost
      In the words that it was compressing
      And the website said, “The answer to your query
      Is lost in the data
      And it’s all in the artifacts of JPEG”