Poem: Deselection

 

Deselection

 

it was the age of wired golems,

the construction of a cold electronic nest.

cell by battery by cell 

human smiles became bytes while

screens transformed into the consiglieri of dreams. 

 

it was a marketplace for mothy hearts

seduced by googol spiders in fire-fast webs. 

colorful saviors on pedestals of pixels 

rushed to rise from luminous crypts and

commenced to flagellate transfixed eyes.

 

mouse idols invoked arrow-magic,  

that clickety-prattle-quack-and-seethe of lightspeed lines,

so lurid in networks of conspiracy-

massive-multilayered-online hives.

 

no old-world psalm had predicted

such a contagion of connectivity.

the great new servers of the telecommunicated temples

hunted quick to infiltrate far

far far far far far far far 

urgent to hawk a new kind of mind.

 

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10/10/24  eds

mmorpg

clickety = mouse clicks

 etc.