MUSIC CONSPIRACY

THE MUSIC CONSPIRACY

                  OR

TWENTY-SIX MUSIC DEVICES 

IN A GOLFING CATALOGUE

I think the human race is making up for lost time

when the only music we ever heard 

was when a rare someone wandered through 

with cat gut stretched on curved pieces of wood,

It must have been quiet enough to think back then.

The ad says I can capture dozens of AM stations

from hundreds of miles away

on a hundred dollar Table Radio that fits anywhere

and plays like a Stradivarius,

or buy the waterproof FM that lets me 

swim, walk, or jog to the rhythm

while all my 

tunes are conveniently stored 

in a quarter the space 

within a clever plastic frame

as I lay in the tub 

surrounded by soothing wireless speakers

till I drop the remote 

or the cell phone rings 

to sell me more insurance

here in the middle of fourteen hundred fifty-two 

guitar pickers on this Tennessee anthill.

But wait, where’s my slick,

pre-programmed portable receiver

that lets me listen to Rock, Bach, talk,

or foreign intrigue, so I can stay informed

and entertained from Baghdad to Bosnia 

and my brain explodes in simple self-defense.

Or maybe we’re just using up 

all that time we gained

when it was quiet enough to think.

Reviews

[Lorry]

Yep, we probably are!
I remember a very old BBC report/documentary about how modern computing technology in the seventies was gonna make our lives so much simpler and when showing us around an office block sized room that they called a "computer", made the bold assumption that he thought in the future there would be anything up to ten or twelve computers in the future!
(I'm sure it'll still be haunting him from YouTube heaven some place!
Fast forward to now and all those geeks that everyone boring now own the world and who interestingly all have Aspergers, with the exception of Bill Gates, who said he would never take the test, so in otherwords all of them except Bill, who is in denial.
I'm Amazed we even have time to do anything else other than "agree to terms" we never read and sell our souls for likes and clicks.
When was it that we became so deluded that we all began to think we could all be pointless little Kardashian's, famous for err....
Anyway, if you wanna see what your future holds for certain, just emwatch that earth shattering documentary "Idiocracy".... clue, go to YouTube, type in idiocracy, then watch and listen! 😃

[Vol]

Lorry,
You always find the light! My physics professor, back in 1972 sdaid AI is humanities' next evolutionary step... EVERYBODY is already connected to the Matrix of the web, but I remember just a few yewars ago having to do student averages on paper.
"Idiocracy" is my favorite documentary!!!
Vol

[Lorry]

Yep, mine too.
By the next generation or two, when we are all in cages, the apes will be explaining to the ape paying customers at the zoo that idiocracy was the moment the world's axis turned and in between telling those apes not to feed the humans they will go on to explain the second seismic shift in our demise, Donald Trump!
To that I say "good luck with that Mr Monkey!"

[Thomas W Case]

Superb work. You nailed it.

[Vol]

Thomas,
Thanks, Man!
Vol

[ETERNITY]

You know what it told me? People are the problem. Thanks for this provocative piece.

[Vol]

Glenda,
And so it has always been...
Vol