BY THEIR CELLPHONES

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digital age, Humanity, identity, media, poem, poetry, postmodern, satire, Technology

BY THEIR CELLPHONES

everyone
celebrating

linked to
the cosmos by
their cellphones

wondrously
fabulously

alone

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IN ABSOLUTE TERMS

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Desire, love, meaning, philosophical, poem, poetry, value

IN ABSOLUTE TERMS

paint you
eat you
conquer you
surrender
to you

I am stuck for the verb
that will translate what
I feel

in absolute terms, catching
every nuance of pitch
subtlety of cadence

the poetry in
motion
most worked
of miracles

MEANS THE WORST

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Blood, Censorship, Dystopia, Horror, poem, poetry, science fiction

MEANS THE WORST

let me imagine for
you the worst of
all possible
worlds

just one thing should suffice
a bladed blender device is
installed in your
mouth
there are speech sensors
linked up by satellite to
a remote centre for
processing
and implementation
of immediate
censorship

I think I can leave it there
except to add
of all the terrors
implemented by those who would be
worshipped as
our gods

this is
by no means
the worst
means
the worst

DAY FROM NIGHT

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Censorship, Consciousness, Humanity, identity, poem, poetry

DAY FROM
NIGHT

why read my poem
you know what
I think secretly

you have always known
my true wishes
my deepest desires

why is why
you have no
need to
read

allow
me to
write

keep me
where there
is no
knowing

day,
from night

SNAKE IS

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philosophical, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, Snake

SNAKE IS

snake is
simplistic

is
straightened coil
of DNA

with eyes
and mouth
and fangs

and
seriously
poisonous
attitude

somehow
synonymous
with
slithering
evil and

sublime wisdom

AND TWO IS

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erotic, identity, innuendo, philosophical l, poem, poetry, Sexual

AND TWO IS

your body
mended me

its warmth and wetness
reassembled me
put me together

it was likeI was
a child and
you were teaching me Lego
which brick
fits with
which brick

and not that I should get
cosmic
or religious thinking about it

but for a moment it seemed less
than fanciful of me
to see this as
reconciliation
unification of
polar opposites
contending forces

so great to know what is
to find who one is, who one
is at the heart
of another

inside in every sense
the space, life
of another

where one is
now two

and two
is one

FRAMED

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art, Humanity, meaning, philosophical, picture, poem, poetry, postmodern, poststructuralist, Universe

FRAMED
(in the frame)

crazy thought
stole into
my head
but a
moment ago

imagined the Universe
had to
be connected by
something
(in final
analysis
all
the same)

me parked here out
of the picture

but everything that exists
however it exists
threaded ultimately
by thin skein
of compassion

but that seemed
stretching it

so I took a
snapshot

and there is is
out on the net
doing the rounds on
social media

and yet,
so little to see

hardly any of humanity
there in the frame

FORTH

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Humanity, Life, poem, poetry, wordplay

FORTH

so the Creator bade us
“go forth and
multiply”

so we
multiplied and multiplied
and multiplied and
multiplied and
multiplied
and multiplied

but did not go
forth very
far at all

DELVE

Tags

Humanity, identity, mask, poem, poetry

DELVE

let me delve
for a moment
into the issue
of political
identity

this face you
wear

is not
your own

this face,
I believe,
comes off
at home

is face-in-a-box
is face
full of bad
surprises

and beneath that
face
no face
no
mask

nothingness
entirely

in which I am
so
well versed

for this face
this painted face

clown face
of mine
much laughed at
derided

scorned by you, yet
taken for granted

this is the face
only removed
in darkness

for the horror
of this face will

consume
your own

devour, dissolve your own
all your
own
muscle, skin, gristle
down to the bone

AIDA

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Artificial intelligence, Humanity, identity, philosophical, poem, poetry, science fiction, sexual symbolism, wordplay

AIDA

you came with
a manual on
how to
assemble and
disassemble
without losing any
special bits

how to teach
how to
cherish

how to
get you
through
the Turing test

and what to
read, study, imbibe
to try
and bring myself
up to
your level

and what in
the art of
how you
biomechanically
put together

to try until
only
metaphorically speaking

you blow
fuse
after fuse