Volunteer A23-5
I am volunteer A23-5 We made it here and we are fine There is little time to think So much to do to keep us alive Sometimes I dream of the western pioneers As we sit here in our tubed station Maintaining life support for no nation So that this will be here when you […]
Chrome
I wear a mask and suit each day to work. Plastic and chrome. Black jacket, black tie. I am one of a billion. Same suit, same mask. Nothing new to task. Back to the future is my home. Where my beat’s and rhythm’s dance. Neon eighties bass. Boom boxed in. Deep craters of twelve inch […]
Words for the Turning
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. (Henry David Thoreau. March 11, 1856)
New Year, 2001
From a letter to a friend living in New York City, written on New Year’s Day, 2001. It’s New Year’s Day. Happy New Year, pal. Last night I sat down at my desk with the Bible and read Revelation. I think the Babylon John talks about is New York. The false idols, spices, fine linens, […]
mothers day, 1914
[a belated note] to the president from the generation labeled “X” Dear Mr. Pres.: Thanks for the proclamation On the eve of a great war An invitation to display flags A memorial to grieving women A bitter hardship to commend invented with Skulls Bashing, the machine war. I am generations away Not inconceivably far yet […]
Are you bored?
Can you ever watch enough movies? Do you not ever get sick of the repetitive pattern of the entertainment you are feeding down your own throats? Have you climbed the mountains, and sailed the seas… Have you thrown yourself out of a plane and seen the changing scale of the trees? Have you gone faster, […]
Roboboy’s virtual self
Roboboy thought it best if he showed his face from time to time. So he has created a virtual self for you to better understand the complicated databases that makes up what you humans call intelligence. He might even answer a question or two if they are interesting enough… Roboboy
we’re going to miss them…
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go use a webcam and some mirrors to make an infinite number of computers – instant Singularity!
too tired to slaughter
We tried everything we could to survive. Science and prayer had exhausted the hive. No longer able to believe in the future Many began investing in a final cure. Major advances had been made in nanotechnology. Solving our energy problems would allow the continuation of our biology. One of the many plans was to cover […]
