Monday, February 22, 2010

Post Postmodern World


         Computers write our poems:

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            a thousand faces in sand
some things                         never change
    light and     filled with shreds
                      cantaloupe
                  frozen peas
              dinner dates
          lips                         synched


//:

 This is the post postmodern world
       colors are blankets we wear
            shoes are made of moving things (like megabytes)
transiting freedom our computers are our children or dogs and cats
     some people find that cars are dying but most people agree they are fun
          our grandparents are made of metal and we are made of plastic
our food is plastic too
instantaneous becoming has made it hard to grow
   Oh and we love green, green is the post postmodern color
               the post postmodern world shimmers in daytime when our crystals
                            froth up our electrolytes and we just plug our valves and keep truckin
coffee is not longer served, neither is tea, we sip octaves above batteries but
                              cylindrical nonetheless our lips shiver at the touch and glow
            we go go go; it’s the post postmodern world we don’t have time to sleep
    (we watch TV) and there is always time for a good tweet
              if you don’t understand, click here
                     when we dream it’s about buying pants or meat or telecommunication
that’s right, the cell phone is still a thing, prone to blinking our eyes
              we can’t wait for the next Ipad, when it rains you can hold out your hand
                  because now the rain is green (it’s really a lot better that way)
                        





5 comments:

  1. reading this poem makes me feel averse to being listed as a 'cog' on the blog page...

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  2. hahahahaha we are all cogs in this machine

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  3. even the machine that we are cogs in is itself a cog in a larger machine, ad infinitum

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