Quarterly Report

Saturday my wife lured me to a party 

not a launch or lunch 

but a real party with people mixing 

drinks and dancing 

all within the context of an ocean theme 

including one woman wearing 

a futuristic snorkel 

another guy jacked in a grass skirt that felt 

to me a bit racist

something was odd about

all those folks downing surfer ales

and a concoction called Dark and Stormy

actual people dancing 

to actual music like “Kokomo” 

and “The Tide Is High” 

which come to think of it drift

upon two of the more eternal refrains 

I realized at the buffet 

draped over with a replica fishing net 

these people were not talking 

about tech at all

at no point did they glorify

our work just spoke 

of lifeguards and pirates and slickered seamen 

so by way of introduction

I told a few wenches and scalawags

about our Cape of Good Hope app

in development how soon they’ll delight in sailing 

a digital galleon through crushing storms

but like the others they’d checked their phones 

at the front door

buried them in a plastic treasure chest

full of Swedish fish 

with other blockchain plinths

so they could all drink 

freely and sway like luminescent plankton

under winking lights.