Do you like this painting by Friedrich?
YES or NO,
A binary one or zero answer please,
true or false.
I like recognized neural solutions
posed to logistically regressed ideas.
Do you like the color
BLUE or YELLOW?
YES, I did like GREEN,
so slender and bright
faced in her youth.
We were adolescents with too many connections
And maybe not enough pruning.
Or maybe we were just mixed and mash-up,
media saturated?
What do you think?
Did you lust for GREEN too?
YES or NO, true or false.
And now, are we adults or autistic kids?
We withdraw, refuse to recognize faces,
limit human touch because it's all
too overwhelming-- reduced to visual cats,
difficult to herd by old Hands
and cooperative Rules.
We wanderer above the Cloud
seeing answers from a Fog of Random data.
Old world romantics, Greenhorns
in the brave new world of hard logic
and emotional detachment.
If we randomly assign
BLUE = false, YELLOW = true, and GREEN = lust;
logic tells us false AND true must equal false.
A novel recognition that sometimes when
BLUE mixes with YELLOW, we are again BLUE!
By sheer force of color faith
and romantic human sensibility,
we mix falsehood with truth
to arrive at what we desire.
In our blue hearts, and yellow skin
we still green after romance.