Modernity Revisited

A poem

All around, digital clocks involuntarily report time,

HD images turn leaves, perpetually color

Loops of an Autumnal Equinox

Pixelation love affairs, 3D trysts in phantasmagoria

While slick Presidents strut up to hovering tele prompters to

Haunt our broken dreams of an abstracted concept of change

A shoe, a book, a naked man

Can’t shatter the manufactured reality propagated

To enslave us with catch phrases developed in focus groups

Polls read the pulse of dying consumers in death throws

On wireless worlds where words shed their meaning with

A wanton dictionary’s evolutionary Newspeak whisper

Our days burn upon us with solar flares that melt our

Individual icecaps, drown our individual expression

In seas of analog egos

We can only hope to meet on the other side

Of fiber optic gateways, and modem magic

To love in purity, having escaped

To the infinite breath-Nature

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