you can trip digital switches far away on some server connected to your phone by wifi / fiber optics / satellite communications / it comes out of the sky like rain / we can ‘halloo’ from the other side of the world and say ‘have a nice day’ as if they were sitting right next to us at the cafe
we can peer into the mystery of ancient archaeology and read the current news on our card shaped handheld device / we can take pictures and send them to friends without developing them at the drugstore / we can remember things with voice recorder that would have been lost in the labyrinth of our own forgetfulness / that place where minutiae and details diffuse and disperse
just remember not to sit on your phone or leave it behind on the table when you get up to go or drop it in the street where it gets run over by a car or lose it at the carnival or get it drenched in a rainstorm / it’s an external device not part of our body although maybe one day it will be a small antenna sprouted from our left ear tracking signals from the mother chip / never separated / re-charged at night from our electronic pillow where we dream of electric sheep and wake to the pulse of a gentle tone emanating from the internal speaker behind our medulla oblongata / i like that word medulla oblongata you can google it if you like and learn all about it / i did
the weather is not just something that happens outside / it happens inside too / it’s trackable / you can scan and calibrate your own conditions with the new ME app
a bird flies through the sky as free as a . . . a bird / i sit here wondering when the new feature will emerge from the technology jungle / the bionic web / the primeval undergrowth of our collective righteousness as the caffeine hits my brain and my right hand scribbles this epistle / automatic writing is what it’s called / stream of consciousness as i’m conscious of the stream / the sub-organic sibilant anarchy simmering away / the inner world and the outer world clearly divided / pre-synaptic energy waves interact with external reality and combine to form a useful picture
i wonder how far i can go / how long i’ll live / what happens next when the Cyborg Corporation hits 10 trillion dollars market value and children are infused with anti-depressants dispersed with clock-like regularity thru a prescribed software update and communication is instant and free / held like a cappuccino in a cardboard cup of inextricable eccentricities / the chalice of thought / the cloud of knowing / the rain of knowledge raging across the range of the landscape of the timeless moment
inside in my heart i know what i have forgotten / all this and more is possible / technology technically takes time but it has no time / suggests no solutions / has no soul
i don’t even know what it is as i succumb to the vertices / the verities / the ebb and flow / the tides of this tidal wave
wave as you go by
music by Glass Beams :: Horizon/Mahal 0-4:35 from the live performance EP ‘Mahal’
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