Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Robert Verdon, #197, botany of the future


my cat brings in
an herbarium of dried leaves
that I tread into the carpet when they are
wet and black
enough for Pound

the vat of summer
has long boiled over
the days are short,
short-changed and growing longer,
lost and found

so bored
that I ponder
the future of work

what happens when new technology
is so versatile
that it replaces the ‛new jobs’ that it ‛creates’,
along with the old ones it destroys?

what happens
as we all 3D-print
the forces of production,
breaking the mould
and the mode
asunder?

I stand like a chewed pencil
screwed into a compass;
my thoughts are but
laminated leaves
on a cartridge paper sky

I go to school
lost and found
lost and found
again.

5 comments:

  1. this goes off in all directions - interesting ones

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  2. thanks — hopefully not a case of 'he leapt on his horse and rode off in all directions'!

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  3. I keep saying to myself: 'The vat of summer has long boiled over'. Really like it.

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