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Iste machina inferna

By Swanjive

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Spark of cathode raytube Sprung from glowing viewcube Stretches over yawning gaps To be there and not be there. A lying tongue of wires A silicone implanted AI remembers Things done but not done. Things moved yet unmoved. An almost plane of naught built upon a written word. Both great and minute At similar times unveiled, a monster Receiving many imaginations Of stressed out workers daily Oh freight train of electrons Or brain waves wash/entrain (?) Processing via gray matter Pulses and subsonic impressions The phantasm of an awakened state... From nebulous Discordia of limitless possibility Into the concrete forms That have come to ingest What strives to be A whole half A blank waiting to be filled in With knowledge of that which dwells beneath? Written April 10th, 1999 © on Mar 23 2002 12:31 AM PST   20 • 0 • 10

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