Take Me to the Moon (EK)

Take me to the moon is a very delicate piece of digital poetry about the labor force that sustains the tourism of Waikiki in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the problems they face with tourism and indigenous culture. It does not require the reader to interact with it much. When the lines of the poem slowly begin to appear and lines of poetry are displayed and then fade out after several seconds, but are replaced with the same line by new text fading in. Sometimes identical and overlapping letters are reused. When they reappear in the new text they give the poem a sense of kinetic continuity. It starts out painting a picture of a typical day in the city Emerging from the black background.

       
     

However, the poem goes on to explain how the beautiful land of the island is being torn up so big companies can in and build their corporate buildings. Currently 32,300 people in Waikiki have jobs. 8,000 out of that 32,300 are employed through the hotel company. Although the island of Waikiki is beautiful for the tourists who visit it. It is not as pleasant for the workers who slave away to make sure the visitors have an exceptional visit. It talks about how the state has its own rights to defend to control their Native Rights. Hawaii is a very culture rich state which they take pride in, they would do anything to defend their culture.

I thought this was a rather intriguing piece, the way everything unfolds in the end is oddly satisfying. the story line after you get through this piece is very interesting. It’s not way you would expect if you were judge this piece by its title. I would recommend this piece to others.