Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Tug Dumbly # 26 - Human Beings are Trabants or Some Other Famously bad Communist Car


Human Beings are Trabants or Some Other Famously bad Communist Car 

Takes a stupid amount of water to make one silly steak.

All that sheer waste.

So much sifted, so little gleaned,
so inefficient our production means.

Ponder the great slag heap of raw data shat
from the bums of our skull jockeys, Sir Ebrum
and Sarah Bellum, before squeezing even one small ball
of knowing from the gum machine.

Then ponder what it takes to ponder just that 

all that fine Swiss fat greyly whirring
just to learn to zip a fly, or build a cheese sandwich.
All that neural language dribbling down the chin
like Heinz baby mash, just to drag your carcass
across a basement carpark, stretch up and hit
the lift button to the lowest level of the function centre,
the Protozoan Mezzanine, all of which itself is just a cinder block
beneath some indescribably more massively evolved edifice.

To know just that!

What’s a Time & Motion man to make of such costs?
Diabolical! A nightmare field of rocking horses
in a warren of rusty horror films, ridden by
an army of cymbal-clapping monkey-clowns. 

All that sleep and feed just to boot up the machine
for a few clumsy hours of charging and bumbling
and eating and polluting and offending
and miscommunicating through another day
of picking our dimple on the giant’s arse of history. 

No farmer would let an animal survive such inefficiency.

Like a dog barking at waves,
like going through a garbage dump
with a pair of chopsticks,
like combing shampooed entrails
in search of ever more pointedly pointless
meta-thingumies to paint the human conditioner.

It’s like we’ve been handed a whole sausage factory
of minced pig matter and told to remake the animal

… still fun making the links but.


6 comments:

  1. the human conditioner
    for itchy scalp treatment

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  2. Ha. Pretty bloody inefficient. Your poem is NOT.

    Love this part especially:

    "A nightmare field of rocking horses
    in a warren of rusty horror films, ridden by
    an army of cymbal-clapping monkey-clowns."


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    1. I like that bit too. Thanks Rob

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    2. just to say
      I copied it
      yesterday
      for a friend
      who read it
      to a group
      of men who
      all loved it

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