Poem: Matrixification

 

Matrixification

 

prayer wont salvage

what twittered till it bled.

idols lie nude

under the voyeur-yawn

of the immaterial webby spotlight.

 

vanity not virtue.

turpitude not rectitude.

it’s about salacious sin and carnal plunge.

manic feast and dissipation.

 electric Christ languishes

near virtual Vishnu and streaming Buddha.

 

who can keep barcodes 

out of jungles and rainforests,

while cartoons animals slink cutesy and viral

in conga lines of musicals

across pulsating tubes?

 

how deeply can faceless sex 

spred the brain wide to earn upgraded moans?

how seductively can circuits undress avatar flesh, screw buds into ears,

and swallow screenshots into cellphones?

will cashless crypto$ aspire,

while megafantastical gameworld multiverses

magnify the already-ramified Matrixification?

 

can love 

escape the prison bars in the source code?

can it dodge gamer guns 

and evade apps, clicks, taps and deletes

to survive?

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6/30/24

references to Twitter (now X) and YouTube ("tubes")