Bamboo and Laptop

In a distant forest, among thick green grass,
There lived Bamboo, beautiful as alien dawn.
He reached high with his branches to the sky,
And always was in harmony with eternal world.

One day his friend, fast Laptop, came to visit Bamboo,
With keys, screen, and whole Internet universe inside.
He talked about the news, about events in the world,
And he dreamed of traveling to distant virtual lands.




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Bamboo looked at Laptop and listened him carefully,
But in his soul there was pure silence.
Finally Bamboo said: "You are modern, without a doubt,
But my roots are in the soil, where I find my inspiration."

Laptop thought and responded like this:
"Bamboo, you don't have to make up an explanation,
You don't have to make excuses to anyone to exist."

"I think, you taught me how to be truly free, Laptop.
It's strange that you did this, I expected something else."

Laptop laughed sincerely:
"We, liberals, only seem to be terrible cannibals,
But in fact, we are not evil or scary at all!"

"But still cannibals?" - Bamboo clarified in a low voice.
Laptop chose to pretend that he didn't hear question.



The original text was written by me in Russian. I haven't studied English systematically so the translation may not be ideal. The main work was done by Google Translate, I just corrected obvious absurdities, where I noticed them and where I did not confuse them with brilliant insights.