are my stick figures enough?

i can draw only stick figures
will this be enough
for art
will they be able to support themselves
on walls
without meat
gnawing at their need
for movement

connected dots have been enough
for countries to mobilize
armed cartographers
to defend
to expand
jagged geometries drawn
to define tongues
and the economies they'll speak

my anemic caricatures
are plenty
to build technology
as this is only the art of
zeros and ones
looped and repeated
beneath the pressure of a button
pinned to a live wire

maybe they will be enough
when all the ice is resurrected
as salt water
and god of this land
leaving us to float atop
in tiny boats
like tiny dots
unconnected



wb