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PREAMBLE:
Divination, dangling leaves, dickory, dickory
dangling dicks, flopping, a bee buzzing,
danger alert, drumming heartbeat,
darting through the air, running through the trees.
Cars, the ever-present vehicles, cankering, crass,
But efficient, a roaring convenience,
as omniscient as the rustling leaves and chirping birds
Internet, the interconnected network, a zooming cursor
Aimed at the human mind, boggling
and incessant, a virtuality inescapable, thorough
and distant, immediate but abstract, interconnected,
interwoven, immediate and inescapable,
An Ether hanging over us, creating Realms
Unseen, but apparent
The black screen, dead, but inviting, a tomb
of yesterday’s interactions, virtual phantoms, abstractions
and icons, a world slipping away, an abstracted
one reappearing,
empty promises and forgotten walks,
the smell of fresh leaves and ripe grass,
but another icon floating through the mind,
Processed alongside the abstractions of a digital
interface,
flickering to life from the dead screen.
EPILOUGE:
Amnesia, allowances for habit, forgotten melodies
that hurt as we dance to them, remembered
painful step after another
Amnesia, the impulse forged to keep us alive,
now keeping us complacent with the world.
G.R. Nanda 