Poem: Incorporated

 

Incorporated

 

x-y-z-$ coordinates,

they graph everyone’s pace,

while the fiducial chessboard stretches

 

through equivocal equations,

faceted words, binary rituals,  

bureaucracy leashed to daily bread.

 

24 out of 7,

that is not what it takes

to run an efficient, ruthless, profitable hive. 

 

note the square windows 

and the ubiquitous icons streaming on screens

to wrest control of human lives.

 

it adds up and up and up:

analyses in ledgers in excels in protocols.

and yet it must be underwritten and worshipped again and again:

 

the impeccable perfection of the source code

to overwhelm, exploit, dominate, and harness 

obsequious, anxious hamster-wheel minds--

 

until everyone is more skyscraper than person,

more math than happiness,

more android than frankenstein.

 

 

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 12/3/23  ... vast amount of mods... maybe I can fix some of these poems, one by one , day by day, at least a little... or maybe I am Sisyphus