Scrolling down
some same old screen
digital slot machine
just to see the bloke
one more time
playing
that hand-carved carrot piccolo
a mean meme
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bikini Barbarello
plated-up
just like we like
type, typing clickety click
type
like
on a glassy surface
Narcissus foretold
we'd reflect
desire mirrored
hell-bent and no relief
too much to know too much to share
what passes in just one second
underneath one tiny fingernail
you suppose we could turn away
but choose instead to stay
rely on some insider
world-view
influencing everything
imaginable
just
a click away
somehow sensing we all sense
this deeper nonsense
made of nonsense
our lives stalled
in algorithmic democracy
delivered by free wifi
the pluralist fortune telling
chasing down a life curated
while gardens grow
and seas are widening
lunatics run the asylum
some believing revolution
be found online
floods inundate
while wisdom ages
on the tides
will we look back
and wonder what drug
drank all the like time
endorsing electric light
reading menus without eating
making music without sound
one hand clapping
so you thought
send
image: Jeffree Skewes Pond / computer motherboard, rice paper. ink, plaster, found objects
absence makes for another chance...
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