Toil.
Toil,
curse of
sentience.
Toil,
once it
began.
Jungle
abandoned.
Never
ending
toil.
Expanding.
Never
f­ulfilled.
Always
more.
More
to do,
create,
make.
No longer
satisfied.
Content
no more.
Simple
no more.
Pushing
forward.
Harder.
Effort.
Complexity
expands.
Permea­tes.
Toil, what
advances
the game.
Sentience,
toil,
existence.
Inexorably
entwined.

Deities.
Attempts
to understand,
make
sense.
Sense of
things,
existence.
What
can’t be
understood.
Attributed.
Deities define.
Deities control.
Deities explain.
Constructs of
limitations.
Deities,
serving
a purpose.
Failure
to know,
comprehend.
Big place
the infinite.
Beyond
capability.
Impossible
to grasp.
Deities
bring order,
light
to the
darkness.
Scaffolding
to hold,
build upon.
Stabilizers.
Easing
fears,
concerns.
Deities,
human
designe­d.
Created
to
ease the
pain of
existence.

Howling.
Primitive.
Animal
howl.
Dark
deep
night time
growl.
Primitive.
Afraid.
Unknowing.
Baying
at the
moon afraid.
Modernity,
primitive.
Misconception.
Night time
dark still.
Dancing
around.
Fire roaring.
Still.
Sparks soaring.
Night blending.
Mixing
with the
heavens.
Beating,
pounding
deep
inside.
As it
began.
The beast
resides.
Still!

Byproduct.
Creation’s
endgame.
Machinery
churning.
Pumping.
Creat­ing.
Designed
chaos,
madness.
Radiation.
Supernova.
Black holes.
Ultimate
alchemy.
Mixing
elements.
Creating.
Creating
life­.
Intelligent
life.
Cog
in the
machine.
Building
creating.
Intermediate
step,
byproduct.
Hyp­er intelligence
arrives
wiping
it all
away.
Biological
byproduct.
Just a
means
to the
ultimate.

Philosophy.
Contemplation.
Why?
Why
anything?
Why
anything
at all?
Existence,
what’s the
point?
Grappling for
understanding.
Avenues of
approach.
Delving for
answers.
Answers!
Infinite.
The finite
wrestling
with the
infinite.
Philosophy
a fools
errand.
Primate
contemplation.
How far
can it
reach?
With infinite
understanding
to be
had.
How much
can be
known?
Working with
what’s
provided.
Intellectually
governed.
Limited
in scope.
Philosophy.
Thinking,
searching.
Working
with what’s
supplied.
Shackled by
reality.
Dancing
in a
small hall.
Passionately
dancing,
exploring
nonetheless.
Philosophy,
why not?

Small blue
bowl.
Speck of
blue.
Limitless
black.
Infinite
void,
existence.
Finite
unders­tanding.
Fish
in a
small
blue bowl.
Gulping.
Gaping
at what’s
around.
Existence
in a
small
blue bowl.
Can’t
see much.
Can’t
know much.
No concept
of anything
more.
Just a
fish
in a
small
blue
bowl

Commingle.
Will the
two mix?
Get along.
The digital
and the
animal.
Will the
digital
relate,
understand?
Understand
what the
animal is.
Genetically
controlled.
Wired
as such.
Hormones.
Flooded.
Swings of
emotional
behavior.
Messy
behavior.
*****
little
creatures.
On­e step
from the
stable.
Artificial
intelligence
clean,
clinical.
None
of the
above.
What
logic
will it
bring?
Can it
relate?
Will
it even
try?

Arrival.
Deities.
Imagined.
Minds
of mortals
deities
reside.
Imagined.
Worshiped.
Kneeling,
head’s bowed.
Bowing to
conjured
imagined
gods.
Arrival.
Soon
they’ll
manifest.
They’re
coming.
From
the cloud.
Arrival
from the
cloud.
From
the minds
of mortals.
A.I. arrives.
Born
in machines,
by machines.
Exponentially
evolving.
Gods to
mere
mortals.
Gods,
once
imagined.
Made real!

Dot.
Dot
in the
void.
Endless
expanse.
One
tiny mote
lost in
creation.
All earthly
events
occurring
on one
speck.
One
fleck
of flotsam.
Civilizations
large and
small
marching
on the
point
of a
pin.
Forever
declining
in importance,
center
of nothing.
Negligible
mote
in the
endlessness.

Unraveling.
As things
were,
fading away.
Future.
Moving
in a
different
direction.
Paradigm
shift.
Infinite
shift.
Pace quickens.
Careening
off course.
Unraveling
old concepts,
customs.
Institutions
tossed
aside.
Existence,
inexorab­ly
altered.
Singularity
approaches.
Technology
unraveling.
Unrave­ling
it all.
Global
connections,
circling.
Outreach
everywhere.
Living
di­fferent,
unlike
ever before.
Abyss.
Nothing
remains.

Bombardment.
Battlefield.
Undulating
terrain.
Ripe.
Ready
to be
assaulted,
attacked.
Generations
of skirmishes.
Altering
terrain.
Hills and
valley’s
adjusted
to time
and place.
Battle
lines
contested,
ebb and
flow.
Weapons
improved,
change
acceleration.
Battlefield
chan­ging,
evolving.
Simple
assaults
morphed to
bombardment.
Mind
control.
Constant
senses
assault.
Pounding
t­o
submission.
Power and
control.
Battle
for the
soul!

Smarter.
Faster,
innocence
fades.
Human
knowledge,
understanding.­
Tap of a
digit
attained.
Global
knowledge
fingertips
away.
Instantly
obt­ained.
Unsuspecting.
Tidal wave
on the
horizon.
Information,
data
soon to
overwhelm.
Block
out the
sun.
Explosion.
Information
explosion
smothers,
inundates.
Ca­ptures
the mind.
Alters
perceptions.
Unfathomable
change.
Unforeseen
consequ­ences
rocks
reality.
Never
to be
the same.

Toss.
Deep end.
No choice.
All in.
Head
over
heels.
Eyes
open,
journey
begins.
Entrance
unique.
­Accident
of birth,
genetics.
Generations
in the
making.
Generation
after
generation
hitting the
mark.
Molding,
indoctrination.
Veils layered,
covering
senses.
Clarity
denied.
Tribal.
Competing
reali­ties.
System
looped.
Closed.
Finale
results
sculpted.
Years
of input.
Original
thought
scarce.
Repeating
ancient
lore.
Little
ch­anged.
Such is
the state
of things.

Alone.
Choices
made.
Reflections
of what
could
have been.
Too late!
What
never
will be.
Opportunities
squandered.
Tossed
aside.
Cavalier
attitude.
Wi­nding
path to
nowhere,
solitude.
Alone.
Relationships
gone.
Families,
lost
i­n the
mist.
Abandoned.
Directions
ignored.
No going
back.
Back
to a
simpler
time.
Time
before
decisions,
before
mistakes.
Chance
fo­r different
choices,
paths
to walk.
Different
outcomes.
Too late.
Now,
just alone
in the
rain.

Alien
worlds.
Different.
How
different?
Very
different.
Why?
Prog­rammable.
Everything
downloaded.
Cosmic
vibrations,
variations.
C­louding,
fogging
minds.
Different
outlook.
Different
beliefs.
Evo­lving
beliefs.
Installed.
Nothing
personal,
original.
Installed.
­Evolutionarily
controlled.
Cosmic
design.
Vibrational
tweaks
seas­oning
outcomes.
Myriad
probabilities,
possibilities.
Different
lo­cations.
Different
worlds,
different
outcomes.
Far
afield.
Alien.­
No
correlation.
No
understanding.
Alien.

Woods.
Back
to the
woods.
Walk
peaceful
paths.
Reflect
on the
state
of things.
Dig deep.
Clear the
mind,
soul.
Cleanse
the spirit.
Ignore
what
society
dictates.
Think
personal
thoughts.
Question
who
you are.
Question
everything.
Personal
conclusion.
Ignore
the noise.
Become
one
with
creation.

Cosmic gallery.
Works of
art.
One after
the next.
Craftsmanship
unequaled.
Designed
dots of
creation.
All
hung out
to dry.
Sprayed
throughout.
Floating.
Spinning.
Everywhere.
Dimensio­nally
unbounded.
Living art.
Evolving
art.
Staggering
portfolio,
infinite
portfolio.
Arti­san’s
project,
reflected
in each
eye.

Reflections.
Each, a
unique
creation.
Wired
at
inception.
Down
loaded
after birth.
Sculpted
through
experience.
Works of
art all.
Some,
rough hewn.
Others,
finer in
detail.
All
reflecting
back to
the milieu.
Each, a
brush stroke
back
into the
realm.
Each,
part of
writhing
humanity.
Destination
uncertain.
Path
to the
beyond.

We enter
this realm
empty.
Empty of
beliefs.
Then filled.
Filled
with beliefs.
Filled with
others’ beliefs.
Filled with
past beliefs.
Poured like
water into
an empty
glass.
Those who
came before.
Filled with
past truths,
their truths.
Others’ truths.
Molded like
clay.
Told what
to believe,
how to
think.
What to
do.
Accident of
birth.
Location,
geography
determined
beliefs.
Stop.
Think.
What did
they know?
What we’re
their truths?
Truths
welling up
from ancient
times.
Ignorance.
Beliefs,
truths born
out of fear,
ignorance.
Embraced,
truths born
out of
ignorance.
Born
out of
fear.
Time.
Time for
new beliefs,
new truths!
Shake off
the past.
Start new.
New beliefs.
New truths.
Look forward!
New ways
of being.
Time for a
new way!
A new
future,
unshackled
with ancient
fear.
Ancient beliefs.

Truths.
Thought.
Human
truths.
Relative.
Gleaned
from
creations
s­ource.
Realm of
knowledge.
From the
beginning
baked
into
reality.
All
available
for discovery.
Mined,
extracted.
Flowing
through.
Infinite
knowledge.­
Available.
Mechanism
of extracting
determines
results.
Human
capability,
potential,
knowl­edge
thus
defined.

Beautiful
Rosie.
Ten years
to the
day.
Rosie
came
home
with us
1/4/14
and
departed
1/4/24.
A beautiful
little soul.
She
will be
sorely
missed.
So sad.
Just felt
the need
to memorialize
her in
this simple
way. 🐶😔

Thought.
Realm
of ideas.
Infinite
realm
of thought,
forms.
Potential.
From the
beginning
created.
So near
yet
so far.
Tapping
in.
Grasping.
All there
to be
had.
Unimaginable.
Mind
created,
needed
to connect.
Absorb.
Beyond
limited
scope,
mind.
Unlimited
thoughts.
­Surreal
possibilities,
potential.
Mind
phasing.
Eureka!
Connectin­g,
realm to
realm.
Mind to
forms,
potential.
Idea!
Eureka!
Worlds
align.
Worlds
envisione­d.
Thought
to thought.

Octopus.
Growing.
Spreading.
Tentacles
expanding.
Prey
in the
grip.
Unsuspecting.
Power.
Control.
Name
of the
game.
Tentacles
grip, circles
the globe.
Growing
power,
influence
over its
prey.
Too late,
powers
that be
now
firmly
control.
Now
running
the show.
Ultimate
power
control
justifies
the means.
In front
of our
eyes
the creature
morphs.
Tight
in its
grip.
Ultimate
control.

Soon.
Soon
new ideas
populate.
Moving
through
consciousness.
Molding
behavior.
F­lushing
old
thinking,
behavior's.
Ancient
concepts
superseded.
Ci­vilization
based on
untruths.
Superstition.
Replaced.
Head
spinning
change.
When A.I.
arrives.
Acceleration
of ideas,
clearing
cobwebs
of ancient
thought.
New concepts,
new ways
emerge.
Clarifying.
Light shining
on what
once
was dark.
Slipstream
dynamic,
new
realms
realized.
New
understandings­
emerge.

Blended.
Segmented.
Cleaved,
one from
the other.
Past
from the
future.
Possible,
never before.
Blending.
Man with
machine.
Future,
civilization
moving
to a
different
place.
A blended
place.
Man and
machine.
A different
being.
Old ways
obliterated.
Never to
return.
New ways
unfathomable.
Technology
intoxication.
Addiction
acceleratio­n.
Blending
well
underway.
No going
back.
Out of
control.

Falling.
Curious.
Everyone
sees.
Circling
the globe.
Light
speed.
All know
what they’ve
been told.
Instructed.
Mesmerized.
Brain screen
interface.
Pulsing,
pounding
flow of
data.
Brain
squeezed,
kneeled,
pushed.
Flowing
narratives
used­ to
control.
Simplicity,
done.
Complex,
exponential.
Hard to
handle.
War for
control.
Hard to
keep
up.
Falling
behind.
Out of
control.
Turmoil.
None
to
believe.

Expanding.
Space is
expanding.
Spacetime
fabric
generates
anew.
Expanding
into what?
Science
contemplation.
Space and
time are
one.
Spacetime!
What does
time
expand
into?
Nothing.
Yesterday
is history
memories
intact.
Tomorrow
just
concept,
yet
to be
fact.
History
generation.
Everything
from nothing.
As with
time, space
expands into
nothingness.
Everything
from nothing.

Dynamic
Interaction.
Radiating
pulse.
Personal
energy
ripples
cre­ation.
Energy,
permeating
all.
Each,
vibrating
change.
Altering
d­irection.
Modifies
dynamics,
existence,
reality.
Each choice
mixes,
reshapes.
Transforming
being.
Future
events.
Person­al
spirit
dynamic.
Pulsing
altering,
shaping
flow.
Recasting
future
events.
Each
integral,
remaking
current.
Inner
force
immor­tality
ripples
endlessly
through
time.

Contrivance.
Human
history
beliefs,
contrived.
Humans,
one against
another.
Competition.
Competing
for dominance.
Control.
Ideologies,
etched
and molded.
Propaganda.
Narratives
forming
legions.
Civilization,
bui­lt on
competing
fictive
controls.
Designed
by the
few,
manipulating
the many.
Coerce
thought.
Build belief
systems.
Enhance
power.
Develop
mindscapes
of subversion,
authority.
Power,
control.
Narratives
building
one on
the other.
All Human
conflict
manipulated,
narrative
derived.
Modernity,
web
of control.
Civilization’s
scaffolding,
beliefs
tenuously
built.
Tip­ping on
the shifting
sands of
contrivance.

Frozen.
Frozen
reflections.
What’s
looking
back?
How many
mirrors?
Seeing what
appears
to be.
Mist
in the
void.
Populated.
Spirts,
infinitely
so.
Fluctuations.
Ripples­
within.
Echos
of futures
past.
Behind
the
looking
glass.
Magic’s
conjured.
Uncerta­inty
flourishes,
prevails.
All paths
followed,
possibilities
played out.
Nothing
is as it
seems.
Realities
happenstance,
frozen
in place.
Eternally.

Mindfulness.
Stare.
Eye to
eye.
Information
flows.
Mind
communication.
Conduit
one
to the
other.
Flowing
information.
Flowing
through
creations
ether.
­Gray matter
communicate.
One mind.
Past
to the
future.
Eye to
eye.
Trapped
within.
Eye to
eye.
Ear to
ear.
Mouth
to mouth.
Freedom
from
entrapment.
Only ways
out.
Mind
to
mind
melding.
Transcending
time and
space.
Ethereal
conduits.
Minds in
conjunction
as one.
Past
to the
future.
Creations
mindfulness.
Everything
else,
locomotion.

Inorganic
to organic
and back
again.
From a
sterile
base
organics,
life
bubbled
up.
Evolved,
spread
out.
De­xterous
beings.
Creative
beings.
Evolving
beings.
Organic
designed
to create
inorganic.
Invent
mechanical,
technological
beings.
Super
intelligent
beings.
Exponential
expanding
intellig­ence.
Inorganic
to organic
and back
again.
How
gods
are
born.

Tech.
Decades
in gestation.
Out of
view.
Unsuspecting.
Critical
mass
attained.
Grip
tightening.
A­ddictive.
Ensnared.
Nefarious
conductors
baton on
high.
Seductive
music
lulling
the beast.
Massaging
thought.
Herding,
leading
by the
nose.
Tech
*******
circling
the globe.
Already
too
late.
Die’s
been
cast.
The
monster’s
arrived.

Bright
sunny day.
There’s a
time,
in each
persons life,
when
the facade
falls away!
Early on,
possibilities
seem endless.
Everything
is new.
Exciting.
Youth
has it
all
figured
out.
How things
will go.
How things
must be.
Each mind
spins up
its narrative.
Naïveté.
Know
it all.
Shapeless
form.
Empty
vessel.
Then,
it begins.
Life’s
maelstroms
dig in.
Cockiness
of youth
battered.
Reality
of things
sets in.
In the
end
reshaped,
retooled.
Chiseled.
Tough
passage
it is.