Poem: Deselection

 

Deselection

 

it was the age of wired golems,

a construct of cold electronic nests.

cell by battery by cell 

human smiles became byte-cons while

screens transformed into the consiglieri of dreams. 

 

it was a marketplace for mothy hearts,

one seduced by googol spiders in fire-fast webs. 

colorful saviors on pedestals of pixels 

rushed to rise from luminous crypts,   

where they commenced to flagellate our transfixed eyes.

 

mouse idols invoked arrow-magic.

a clickety-quack-prattle of lightspeed lines,

lurid in networks of conspiracy-

laden, multilayered online hives

stole us.

 

no old-world psalm in the sacro-

sanct antique bible had predicted

such a contagion of connectivity.

the great servers of the telecommunicated temples

proselytized quick to infiltrate far

far far far far far far far 

urgent to hawk a new kind of mind.

 

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8/12/25 ... 

10/10/24  eds

emoticons

mmorpg

clickety = mouse clicks

 etc.