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Here, I think I fixed it: I hate to think (take the bandage off quickly!) of a cybernetic ghetto where mammals and computers strive togethe
by noumenon1111 2y ago
Here, I think I fixed it:
I hate to think (take
the bandage off quickly!)
of a cybernetic ghetto
where mammals and computers
strive together in mutually
destructive chaos
like pure water
soaking dead trash.
I hate to think
(not now, please!)
of a cybernetic whorehouse;
Amazon, Google, Microsoft
exact tolls peacefully
from computers
though already paid for,
for extra "content".
I hate to think
(it cannot be!)
of a cybernetic lobotomy
where we are free of our nature
and farmed for our labors,
subjected through mammal
weakness and instinct,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
- 0_gravitas 2y agoi highly recommend the collection __"Poems"__ by Iain Banks + Ken MacLeod if you've never come across it before, this 'rewriting' has a similar energy as some of Banks' poems and I think you might like them https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Iain-Banks/dp/1408705877 https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Iain-Banks/dp/1408705877
- nottorp 2y agoAnd that's why HN is worth reading. You randomly browse and someone tells you out of the blue that one of your favourite science fiction authors (who's also written some mainstream lit that you know about) also has a book of poetry...
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