Last Defrag Operation

Scanning and repairing Drive C:—

when all those electrons are scattered into space,
that’ll be the end of me.

You know I always say that I agree
when you assure me that I’ll see God’s face
when my computer is done scanning and repairing Drive C:

But I can count to way past 3
while I’m sitting here on my dead ass,
wondering if the end of me

has come so quickly, like a thief
in the night—departing in no haste
because it has to finish scanning and repairing Drive C:

And the question is, can it ever succeed,
now that I’ve disappeared without a trace:
the virtual end of me

has come, to what purpose I can’t see,
because I don’t know God’s bit address,
or if They're the one scanning and repairing Drive C:—
what may remain of me. . .