![]() Technocratic SlaveryA Poem by Xanthous Crow![]() If the man makes the machines, what becomes of the man when he is rendered obsolete?![]()
Bound by invisible static tendrils
Eyes affixed to the screen Swirling, rolling, searching For anything to get a high W***e-house digital brothel Wiring obscene A parasitic network enough to send you lurching Anything, anything! Just for a jack! Need to connect Automaton overlord You are a slave to the machine Overloading information attack Electronic sensory misdirect Not enough! Bombard! Mechanical phosphene Hooked to a computer Biomechanical mutant Slave to a machine Synthetic parasite Mechanical recruiter (draw others to the network!) Unreal pollutant Attracted, like flies, to a shiny digital screen Unending appetite Pull yourself free Or suffer degradation Or worse, being hacked! A fly in the digital web Become the expellee Socio-evolutionary mutation Escape from the mechanical abstract Follow the ebb You little slave Slave to the machine © 2012 Xanthous Crow |
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Added on March 9, 2012 Last Updated on March 9, 2012 Author![]() Xanthous CrowMount Erebus, AntarcticaAbout"Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancho.. more..Writing
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