Ladies and Gentlemen

Just some of my reflections on virtual reality and artificial intelligence.

Ladies and gentlemen, if you please

under the spotlight, you will see 

a most remarkable… facsimile 

so lifelike, so real

it is a wonder of industry!

fashioned strictly for your appeal

this muse a marvel of ministry

a ruse submitted for your reveal

to your virtual reality

for your notions, sign and seal

please don’t question its authenticity

as you behold these sights surreal

to your conclusions thoughts ideal

in your virtual reality

your avatar just looks so fine

who needs wrinkles and laugh lines

a spot of Botox by design 

a little touch up here and there

a nip a tuck a little more hair

some augmentation for some flair

in your virtual reality

it is not hard for me to see

how the complicity

of almost true… has come to be

but I prefer some actuality

a strange virtue… in my reality

call me freakish and obscene

but a virtual handshake’s not for me

I much enjoy the touch

of another’s hand to clutch

and the feel of a gentle breeze 

that tickles my skin and gives me ease 

to an air conditioned freeze

the taste of simulated cheese

simply, does not appease 

all those artificial flavors

don’t really do us, any favors 

if I gave my love some plastic flowers

my eyes would meet with such a glower

they are a bit caustic and smell sour 

for the sense of almost real 

will not elicit many feels 

the virtue of virtual of truth unreal

seems to me...

like quite a steal

Reviews

[Robert James]

I started programing computers in college back in the days of key punch machines, I never took the occupation seriously too busy getting drunk and reciting houseman but I used those programing skills though out a long and checkered business career. My observation over all those decades of dedicated code hackers is that all along that virtual world was the preferred reality. The digital social net they have built for themselves is where they wish to live. But what is our excuse exchanging verse in pixels on a screen. You've made me think, not entirely as you intended perhaps, but that is what poetry is for isn't?

For that Thank you!

[Robert Trakofler]

Oh what fun that is my name… Robert James:) wow key punch cards I remember those things! Honestly I too grapple with posting poetry online but in many ways the printed page is dead there are so few magazines that publish poetry for the sake of poetry that it is nearly impossible to get your word across the world anymore! Now it is true that some of us write behind masks and that in itself becomes an avatar but I have found that when anyone truly emotes with words under pretense or authentic we crazed poets generally can sniff out the truth

[Robert Trakofler]

Psst thank you for taking the time to read this

[Robert James]

my pleasure, thanks for lettin me emote on your comment page ;-)

[andrew mitchell]

A fine write Robert, material things can’t replace the warmth of a hand , a smile and or a hug.

[Robert Trakofler]

Hi Andrew:) I think in a lot of ways we have been forced to swallow the facsimile of things for so long that we can't tell the difference between what is true and what is lies.

[andrew mitchell]

I agree……..😀👌

[Stella Armour]

i could not agree more Bunny, there is nothing better than a warm hug or handshake ...
Virtual everything has no heart or soul...

[Robert Trakofler]

that was my rant for the week lol

[Stella Armour]

well i enjoyed and agreed with your rant for the week :)

[John the Baptist]

Well rhymed, Bunny. I think I will choose to have a virtual death.

[Robert Trakofler]

Lol brilliant idea!