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Silicone Souls

Sandwiched in layers of liquid crystal display,

Encased in vats of plastic,

                          

                            we

Voyaging in data-spheres, plumes of digital play.

 

Mindless,

         In the soup of silicone,

                            

                            all

Myth-makers,

         Pouring over electro-spawned

         networks,

                            

                            fall

Workers,

          In the buzz of bits and bytes, of

          megabytes and terabytes,

                            

                            down

Everyone

          Far from the wood, the brine, the

          mud that caked us,

          In tighter and tighter

          digitised  projections,

                            

                            click!

‘Like me’,

‘Share me’,

‘Leave your comments.’

 

Messages smoothed out in polymers,

Beyond reproductions of ourselves,

 

                           enter:

 

Deeper, delving in the mire of dream-conscious,

 

Now a waking voice,

          Hardened, digitised, recorded in

          bubbles, in drives, in clouds:

                        

Numb numbers of numbers numb,

                          mirror.

 

          A platform slotted home:

The motherboard!

          To record the echo in the hollow

          of our Being.

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Written by
ashleyq5
55 / M / London
Published
Sep 30, 2017
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37·124
Notes

Wrote this a while back. It was published in The Tunnel Magazine, which was great. Anyway, hope it gets a wider audience.

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#silicone#motherboard#ai#computers#social#media
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