Present and Continuously Tense – A Self Portrait
The modernity gritties,
The politics of the cities
Must we make haste and choose
Liberal freedom or universal access to necessities?
Need an inspired political line,
Hello, can you call me? (commie)
No, this was all phony,
Now I am grown up and;
My thoughts have been revised-
I think I should CAPITALISE!
Everything’s has been easy for me
So why should I care about institutional lies?
I’ve spent so long here,
I am now of privil-age
Here is when we enter the civil-cage
Once I turn myself into the machine,
Against what will I rage?
I whirl about in a conviction of confusion
This ride of life has a weird constitution,
It has dawned on me how dark it gets
And into this passivity I watch the sun set
this plane has been free-falling and;
On one side of the wing I hopefully bet.
A weird reminder of school days as I,
Hear constant cries of LEFT RIGHT LEFT
Who’s to answer for this theft?
Watch our futures march right past us
Why make the effort of this political fuss…
This is bleak but I know what helps
Cold stainless metal, entangled wires,
Perfectly tempered glass that reflects my desires
This vibrance of all colors
Birthed by only three
Coded into this screen
A finger’s touch my whim’s decree.
Master of all I virtually see
Through boundary-less waves and frequency
This grass becomes greener than reality
In a box I trap myself,
And the whole world I roam free
Cyborg body unfunctional without a phone
Through algorithms I create a data clone
What’s that rhyme we were taught?
Oligopolies make a new data farm
AI AI oh…
Turn away and look at the screens
Accessible, customisable digital dreams
And I no longer want to read
That task now belongs to the silicon-breed
Intelligence has beckoned a new ascendance
Never-mind how it creates an eerie dependance
One more step towards technological progress
Just a little deduction in employment is not a regress.
Why Frustrated? Upskill don’t frown!
Just watch and wait this time it will trickle down.
Anyway,
Why take stock of this with all my might?
After all its just a floating rock, right?
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