please alert me
   to a HIGH balance

alert me to the grapes
   ripening on the vine

alert me
  to the sun shining

alert me
   to some ******* glorious news

i just want to know
all of
it.

all of the information.

feed me
all the words
all the stories
all the photographs
all the art
all the music
make me understand.

because you can't
understand
without first
knowing.
you must know
what has happened before
what is happening now
and it takes precious time
to accumulate this information.

only when you understand,
can you act.
only when you listen,
can you know.

if i could just store
organize
cross-reference
all the things
i would
k n o w

i envision a unity
of information
a seamless integration
of human creativity
and technology

imagine the whirls
and hums
of data being processed
transferred
syncing, streaming, downloading
packet up all this information
and crash it around the world
throw it around
for the sake of
human knowledge
free and open

there is no way to know.

and when the moment
  inevitably comes to you,
     as it does to us all,
          and you are utterly convinced
          that indeed you do, in f a c t,
KNOW...

i can assure you without hesitation,
    is the exact same moment
that you know the very least.

i just realized
i followed my own self
into the woods
and that makes me happier
than words
can possibly express.

for the
first time
someone has
pointed me
back to myself.

sometimes
  a thing appears
that is like a magnet
(or as the kids would say)
   it <h i t s> different.