Lip Synced Echoes:

from a conversation with my son about bot streaming without an audience in an effort to achieve billboard success for music artists. I tried to imagine the non-existent audience personified.

Lip Synced Echoes:

Neural vibrations in vacuums without wires

for audience lacking ears hoping to inspire

slick purveyors promoting long dead stars 

by digital streams that spontaneously start.

A future is fomenting quickly from our past

ready for audiences now making the scene

immersed in movement never meant to last

with sounds and images synced in between.

Eyes shut tight on broken window dreams

to ingest integrated visions of banal fantasy

void of true reality or anything that could be

with minds locked tight insider of the stream

like lip synced echoes striking canyon walls

spinning around to bounce off zenith moons

to achieve false apogee but no curtain calls

with hardwired brains certain to crash soon.

Author's Note

I wanted to try quatrains with rhyme variations.

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

No telling what AI, bots will do in the future; many things are in the offing of technology. To some, they are dangerous and scary; to others they are beneath needed.
I like how you put all of that in great perspective sir.
Excellent rhyming quatrains.

[carl]

many thanks for the read and review, each major tech advancement comes with blessings and curses. TV was to be the great educator - same with the internet on an even more widely available access and both have that aspect but mostly they became additional food for our bread and circus. - carl

[Sami Khalil]

I agree wholeheartedly. You are welcome sir Carl.

[Marie]

Oh, dear! Technology! Is it something to be feared or to be welcomed? At the moment it is an almost unknown quantity. AI is only as good as the person who has programmed it and I think that is the problem in the long term. What will the programmer give it power to do? It is like Oppenheimer when he created the atomic bomb. I have read that he regretted creating it because of the death and destruction it caused and to many innocent people. AI could be used to do good instead of evil, but will it? Only time will tell. It is a scary subject at the moment. I love the title of the poem, the wonderful use of allegory, the perfect rhythm and rhyme which have created an effortless flow to the poem and I also love the neat lay out of the poem. A Masterpiece from The Master's hands! Thank you for sharing, Carl...

[carl]

much appreciated the time to read and review and your clear thoughts on the risk we face with our progress. Can't help but question if "Progress is our most important product" is a worth code by which to live. -carl

[Marie]

Most welcome, Carl, always... Sometimes I can't help but feel and think that what is regarded as progression is in fact regression. It is difficult to be accurate, Carl. Only time will tell...

[Soren]

Very nicely done and an interesting subject as well. I suppose that this could be taken several ways. Either a social or technological commentary would be my first two choices. I prefer the last and how it affects the first. Great metaphors and lines in this poem and the rhyme falls right in line. Loved it Carl

[carl]

Thanks for the read and review much appreciated, and the socio/techno is right on for what I intended. I tried to imagine the non-existent audience personified. the idea came from a conversation with my son about bot servers streaming songs to no one (no audience listening ) in an effort to promote and achieve billboard success for music artists. Apparently artist get recognition based on how many streams they have not on how many listeners they have. I tried googling it but didn't have much success b/c I didn't know the correct terms to use in my search. again thanks -carl