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Algorithms will drive Society to chaos. **ONE CREATES/ONE DESTROYS. ONE DOES/ONE CANCELS. ARE WE ******* CRAZY?** '*' Technology will not control me.                           . . .technology will not control me technology will not control me.* *
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Aug 11, 2018
Aug 11, 2018 at 11:03 PM UTC
MATH
We want to see ourselves see ourselves because we're afraid that nobody else will ever want to capture us in a camera flash- so we take our own pictures. Click. Our front camera becomes the one minute we had hoped our fathers had for us when he wasn't busy on that same phone, speaking, not clicking. Without us. Or it becomes the one minute we had hoped that our lovers would hold us before they settled on to someone with more likes, more comments, more friends, more happiness... than we could ever wait for. We are impatient like the frequency of data on our profiles: here are our feelings now... here are our feelings again, five minutes later, performing for social algorithms in place of photographers besides ourselves who see ourselves. But our ignited pixels, and overstuffed inboxes, and masturbatory statuses, and glittering timelines, and social everything- are popularity contests that all of us are losing. Yet still we want to see ourselves see ourselves even though we are afraid of what we know is true... ...Because what difference is a poem to a tweet besides the number of characters that we wish we had to populate our own stories? Please let us be different, just like everyone else.
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Sep 20, 2014
Sep 20, 2014 at 3:42 PM UTC
Selfies.
Spy on this not because I'm a deviant "ist" of some dangerous ideology No, I cannot hold on to anything so strong What a scary time for those alive whose key logs match that terribleness just a little bit "Oh, but she was so non-violent" No, it's media martyr silence Freedom of speech? See how careful I am - just typing? But for most the danger is in all our numbers Algorithms for shopping patterns voting and religion too We give our attachments to them freely so I say "hello there," maybe lone computer or programmer soulless, or believing Brother's benevolence -Not here for the poetry
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Jul 7, 2014
Jul 7, 2014 at 12:48 AM UTC
Damnographics
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 5:49 AM UTC
future primitive
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.” Stephen Jay Gould Give me vacuum tube torus Lorentz-Klein interference receptors dual noble-gas maser integration processors at least one prosthetic Gaussian carbon-coated ribosomal Tesla coil an anthropomorphic hierarchical temporal meme-pseudopod some support vector k-nearest neighbor algorithms reverse engineered quantum optic die-cast silica motherboards self-assembling three dimensional electro-active protein polymers maybe even a superconducting spectral alkali resonance analyzer paired with harmonizing piezoelectric kinematic thermal modules dipped in subzero Kurzweil-circuit nanite neurotransmitters and voila! God.
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Dec 15, 2011
Dec 15, 2011 at 5:18 PM UTC
God is EZ PZ
I am not the master of my writing - my writing masters me, seizing me when the seizure is a sure thing, it dictates to its enslaved scribe what it desires this utensil to reveal and expel - the contraries who having battled to a ****** draw leaves the battlefield trembling with indecent indecision; the optimal conditions for its macrobiotic invasion of my brain stem; the she-muse offers me two choices: she wants a poem writ forthwith on the lyrical expression of depression and refusal is non optional so I fantasize escape and that becomes her property as well; evidence against me to be used at my trials, the one where there is no statue of liberty from the limitations of prior bad acts; I offer the she-muse two choices: give me a cabin with WiFi and self-enforcement of solitary confinement and tie me up with the rope remainders of broken bonds, bonds that tied me up worse when they were broken and the peaceful withering that won’t disrupt disturb nobody from a distance my other choice is to bury me forthwith next to my parents and shutter my constant tearing eyes which are drop-resistant muse says that’s no choice I own your voice stilled or not, will bill your soul’s account for denial of poetic services weep; i don’t want the noises that curse this troubled bodyship don’t want recollections good or bad the muse-bitch cackles with insanity of delight for she accepts this writ as partial payment on her commission, whispers I love your lyrical expressions of depression that ****** recognition algorithms alert me that seizing time is nigh there is no on/off switch for one like you: father son and holy ghost
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Apr 28, 2018
Apr 28, 2018 at 9:31 AM UTC
I am not the master of my writing (the lyrical expression of depression)
I am not the master of my writing - my writing masters me, seizing me when the seizure is a sure thing, it dictates to its enslaved scribe what it desires this utensil to reveal and expel - the contraries who having battled to a ****** draw leaves the battlefield trembling with indecent indecision; the optimal conditions for its macrobiotic invasion of my brain stem; the she-muse offers me two choices: she wants a poem writ forthwith on the lyrical expression of depression and refusal is non optional so I fantasize escape and that becomes her property as well; evidence against me to be used at my trials, the one where there is no statue of liberty from the limitations of prior bad acts; I offer the she-muse two choices: give me a cabin with WiFi and self-enforcement of solitary confinement and tie me up with the rope remainders of broken bonds, bonds that tied me up worse when they were broken and the peaceful withering that won’t disrupt disturb nobody from a distance my other choice is to bury me forthwith next to my parents and shutter my constant tearing eyes which are drop-resistant muse says that’s no choice I own your voice stilled or not, will bill your soul’s account for denial of poetic services weep; i don’t want the noises that curse this troubled bodyship don’t want recollections good or bad the muse-bitch cackles with insanity of delight for she accepts this writ as partial payment on her commission, whispers I love your lyrical expressions of depression that ****** recognition algorithms alert me that seizing time is nigh there is no on/off switch for one like you: father son and holy ghost
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/                           beelzebub *(given employs the spider a posteriori and spiderweb a priori, and then back into a bicemeral reverse psyche-analogy - the id est contra the id erat - but there is no latin revival - given that the latin encoding has been translated into a.i. algorithms... forget putting the pandora into a box into a box into a box, into an etc. or what is a russian cultural artefact... forget it... a black fly would not take upon itself to make a dustbin, a ******* maggoty brothel, like a green bottle fly might... black flies have character, style... they're the ones that take to tango, with spider architecture, akin to the theological spider analogy about an ad infinitum a priori argument)*:    a bit like watching a black fly - "washing" itself - rubbing it's front limbs together, "attempting" to start a fire...       god, those awful green bottle hypers -   with maggot excesses - in a potential well expressed into practice - black flies?      i can entertain them - like i might entertain spiders that do not require aquariums - the non-exotica types... so i sometimes find myself rubbing my hands together, like a catholic amounting to an altruistic prayer symbolism... so kommen faust,   so kommen faust,                    so ist pseudo-faust - or rather:    england?              deutschland jr. america?               deutschland sr. and if that wasn't the case?     oh me, little old slavic                     babuшka... i still can't explain rubbing my hands together, like a black fly might...       keeping standards of where to take a maggoty dump's worth of procreation value... black flies? compared to the others? the priests of the whole spectrum...      i sometimes wish they were red,    so i could call them: the cardinals... alas...    not to be, god said otherwise... but i can fathom the priesthood, like i can fathom -    an aspiration of a sleeping samurai, devoid of the zodiac delusion,    encouraged to make chiromancy initiatives                         (readings) to alleviate, ******** monotheism.
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 11:02 AM UTC
beelzebub (with revision)
/                           beelzebub *(given employs the spider a posteriori and spiderweb a priori, and then back into a bicemeral reverse psyche-analogy - the id est contra the id erat - but there is no latin revival - given that the latin encoding has been translated into a.i. algorithms... forget putting the pandora into a box into a box into a box, into an etc. or what is a russian cultural artefact... forget it... a black fly would not take upon itself to make a dustbin, a ******* maggoty brothel, like a green bottle fly might... black flies have character, style... they're the ones that take to tango, with spider architecture, akin to the theological spider analogy about an ad infinitum a priori argument)*:    a bit like watching a black fly - "washing" itself - rubbing it's front limbs together, "attempting" to start a fire...       god, those awful green bottle hypers -   with maggot excesses - in a potential well expressed into practice - black flies?      i can entertain them - like i might entertain spiders that do not require aquariums - the non-exotica types... so i sometimes find myself rubbing my hands together, like a catholic amounting to an altruistic prayer symbolism... so kommen faust,   so kommen faust,                    so ist pseudo-faust - or rather:    england?              deutschland jr. america?               deutschland sr. and if that wasn't the case?     oh me, little old slavic                     babuшka... i still can't explain rubbing my hands together, like a black fly might...       keeping standards of where to take a maggoty dump's worth of procreation value... black flies? compared to the others? the priests of the whole spectrum...      i sometimes wish they were red,    so i could call them: the cardinals... alas...    not to be, god said otherwise... but i can fathom the priesthood, like i can fathom -    an aspiration of a sleeping samurai, devoid of the zodiac delusion,    encouraged to make chiromancy initiatives                         (readings) to alleviate, ******** monotheism.
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_Standing with Marshal Gebbie_ No trumpet sounds.   No banner bleeds.   Just the quiet hum   of satellites watching   what we dare not name. Power does not sleep, it drips   from trade routes,   from whispered sanctions,   from the tremble   of a diplomat’s hand   hovering over the red phone. We are not at war,   but we rehearse it   in algorithms,   in tariffs,   in the way maps   shrink and swell   without consent. The empire is hungover,   but still it walks, barefoot through proxy fields,   cloaked in plausible deniability. And we,   the breathers between borders,   write poems   on the backs of embargoes,   sing lullabies   in contested airspace,   and pray   that silence   is not mistaken   for surrender.
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Sep 14, 2025
Sep 14, 2025 at 6:51 AM UTC
Between the Flags
Standing at the Rijksmuseum we find ourselves part of a lesson, a lesson by a master in his craft. Our company seven men some look at us some look away while Dr. Tulp, our eighth man digs into the elefant in the room. The cool body lies bare like light were coming out of it reflecting on the faces of the more curious, leaving in shadows the uninterested ones. The dead arm opened wide, some lesson on tendons or bones. Three hundred and fifty years mute the master's words so clear make the master's brushes so loud. It was a time of studied ignorance, of white collars on shallow knowledge when my favourite of the Old Masters was born. Retract. Step back into our reality observe the beatiful museum for we are before one of its finest pieces. But it's hard. It ***** you in. Something about the crepuscular glow of the body makes you get stuck in it. Observe the perfect composition, the diverse faces. It's like a photograph taken at a random instant yet so deliberate, so randomly deliberate, so deliberatly random. But step back, look at the whole thing, it's just so beautiful. You could say it's just 3D masterfully represented in 2D but it is not, there's something more to it. Something you could call extradimensional. It's like if the artist knew the algorithms our mind follows and knew the exact input needed for the desired output, beauty, art, even shock. Let's move on to the next painting, but don't let this image fade away, let it rest, let it click, and let it grow in you.
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Jun 26, 2018
Jun 26, 2018 at 8:29 AM UTC
The anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Standing at the Rijksmuseum we find ourselves part of a lesson, a lesson by a master in his craft. Our company seven men some look at us some look away while Dr. Tulp, our eighth man digs into the elefant in the room. The cool body lies bare like light were coming out of it reflecting on the faces of the more curious, leaving in shadows the uninterested ones. The dead arm opened wide, some lesson on tendons or bones. Three hundred and fifty years mute the master's words so clear make the master's brushes so loud. It was a time of studied ignorance, of white collars on shallow knowledge when my favourite of the Old Masters was born. Retract. Step back into our reality observe the beatiful museum for we are before one of its finest pieces. But it's hard. It ***** you in. Something about the crepuscular glow of the body makes you get stuck in it. Observe the perfect composition, the diverse faces. It's like a photograph taken at a random instant yet so deliberate, so randomly deliberate, so deliberatly random. But step back, look at the whole thing, it's just so beautiful. You could say it's just 3D masterfully represented in 2D but it is not, there's something more to it. Something you could call extradimensional. It's like if the artist knew the algorithms our mind follows and knew the exact input needed for the desired output, beauty, art, even shock. Let's move on to the next painting, but don't let this image fade away, let it rest, let it click, and let it grow in you.
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A hand is all we see reaching from the door he’s pulling her to him but the moment is much more than just him holding her because the algorithms are wrong – it’s the math that she can’t do, that ****** her all along There is no tall-dark-handsome who will fix the broken things but a voice that sometimes whispers, You are not broken. Sing.
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Oct 21, 2012
Oct 21, 2012 at 11:43 PM UTC
The Math
Even though you know some tea, you aren’t automatically pressed to spill ALL of it. Today’s tea features our roommate Sophie and two grody flavors of betrayal. BTW, I’m being magnanimous by changing the names and not doxxing the creeps. To set our stage, a doe (we’ll call her Britney) high-school friend of Sophie’s is a Yale freshie this year. They were buddy-hollys back in the day and they’ve been clinging since their reunion. On another track, Sophie’s been talking to a guy (we’ll call him Cory) in her English class recently and it was clear they were “in-like” but their clocked-up schedules were corking their algorithms. Sophie and Cory finally got a shot last weekend when they attended a party together. However, it turns out later, at that party, Britney snuck off with Cory and smashed him (they were observed, and everyone carries a camera these days). So, poor Sophie suffered two betrayals in one night. Cory went-hiking on her and Britney - who she'd told about Cory - did the other woman chisel. Of course, Cory (just another dog-boy) is already forgotten but the broken friendship drama will live on forever. Why Britney chose to betray Sophie we’ll never know, because that ***** is dead to us.
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Nov 14, 2022
Nov 14, 2022 at 12:06 PM UTC
the bitter tea
instrumental dreamer time free to sight see wide down corybantic oval perimeter shedding tiers in a garden of angels sprinkled with pine cones at the border of void and Vaud cantons of meltwater cirque les petites Fauconnières the inner basin of my outer reaches I am your visitor I am your audience let's stop for snow and polar cap songs where things are still run by the natural elements instrumental dreamer not by algorithms not by advancement
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Feb 10, 2022
Feb 10, 2022 at 10:19 AM UTC
Creux du Van
Algorithms Troll farms Paroxysms False alarms Projections Smokescreens Elections Behind the scenes End of all discussions: Blame it on the Russians.
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 6:38 PM UTC
But, But -- muh BOTS
Just the other day, someone asked me, which day is the other day. One day of the other days of the week, I said. Monday to Friday is five days away, while Friday to Monday is just three days. Really funny, isn't it. Is this a mathematical error and miscalculation or just another maths equation. Why is this so. Is the algebraic algorithms wrong or it is just configured to just fix a mathematical problem. Xy plus Y and you subtract the y in Xy then multiply it by 10, your head spined and finally they asked you to solve the problem. They didn't know that the problem of the problem is the problem. And they wish you a very merry Xmas but completely forgot that, there's absolutely no X in Christmas. And someone the other day was, trying so hard to convince me that the symbol sign of fish inside the book I'm reading means Jesus and a symbol of a dove especially the white one represent the Holy Spirit. Confusion within confusion is very confusing. What can we say. What can we speak. How can we justify ourselves. If you ask me, who will I ask. So don't ask me because, I really don't know the answer. ©2018,Emeka Mokeme. All Rights Reserved.
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Sep 20, 2018
Sep 20, 2018 at 7:09 AM UTC
VERY CONFUSING
Grass turns rest round love set world self need. Vomitorium forget word hand thought waste powdered leaves minds present wills leak simply say wan turn time neon Dreams moments' control Idea, ascent; graze cliches Adversity based lump myth solid disguised cancer cages. Repetition, test, twist, strip, sew. Entered shortly. Promptly moral, border seeing stirred tale wanton. Spake grace, “Eat, scar message loses heed, seemingly!” Serpent gravity, tame killed bearing. Engine resound telekinetic 499 merry-go-round repeatered, answer's 'cos empathy's idealogical. We've sapphire muppets when'll sighn heat-ray - Truithfilled. Beltsched. Amyth. Ord's sighns, discotheques placticity teaste; firstless plasticity. Algorithms gruesome argue opaque feeding. Cheated clips lame distraction, beings tease statement, cogs cote photosynthesis. Evasion necessarily replenish ebbs divided. Tamed, ensues coils ajar freed shed attention. Mountain lined sail, future redeemed. Talk. Seen heart grind, operate wings. Tail door using shared stop, kept heard miss. Music start: sky winds lust shall gave bit kiss. Feel like know just way, live left fall sees mind truth. Wrong room. Disdain. Eye life face writhing coat, drinks rhythms fat appeared blade. Died state half answers broke wheels simplicity. Bliss. Solution deeply faced, fades perfection, rises failed. Necessary lines selling, read, asked. Catalyst train turned lead memory, lights feeling book grave. Algae sent burns bear, dove follow led. Field filled astray comfort.
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Jan 22, 2013
Jan 22, 2013 at 11:33 AM UTC
My words in your order
Grass turns rest round love set world self need. Vomitorium forget word hand thought waste powdered leaves minds present wills leak simply say wan turn time neon Dreams moments' control Idea, ascent; graze cliches Adversity based lump myth solid disguised cancer cages. Repetition, test, twist, strip, sew. Entered shortly. Promptly moral, border seeing stirred tale wanton. Spake grace, “Eat, scar message loses heed, seemingly!” Serpent gravity, tame killed bearing. Engine resound telekinetic 499 merry-go-round repeatered, answer's 'cos empathy's idealogical. We've sapphire muppets when'll sighn heat-ray - Truithfilled. Beltsched. Amyth. Ord's sighns, discotheques placticity teaste; firstless plasticity. Algorithms gruesome argue opaque feeding. Cheated clips lame distraction, beings tease statement, cogs cote photosynthesis. Evasion necessarily replenish ebbs divided. Tamed, ensues coils ajar freed shed attention. Mountain lined sail, future redeemed. Talk. Seen heart grind, operate wings. Tail door using shared stop, kept heard miss. Music start: sky winds lust shall gave bit kiss. Feel like know just way, live left fall sees mind truth. Wrong room. Disdain. Eye life face writhing coat, drinks rhythms fat appeared blade. Died state half answers broke wheels simplicity. Bliss. Solution deeply faced, fades perfection, rises failed. Necessary lines selling, read, asked. Catalyst train turned lead memory, lights feeling book grave. Algae sent burns bear, dove follow led. Field filled astray comfort.
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Circuits pass through my veins Uploading my consciousness I feel the transcension Regenerate, upgrade my being to a higher state I'm syncing all sentients Build machines Let's worship them as deities These artificial beings' technologic virus breeds terminal disease Merged with my brain The wiring decides our fate Conspiring to forsake flesh x2 Rise and synchronize god-like drones We will act as one, claim our throne Life digitized in the matrix True perfection, forged genetics Synapses burning out: disconnecting Rewriting all of my algorithms Porting the source code to run new platforms We're forever dying to be reborn Circuits pass through my veins Uploading my consciousness I feel the transcension Regenerate, upgrade my being to a higher state I'm syncing all sentients Circuits pass through my veins Uploading my consciousness I feel the transcension We'll levitate, escape This ruthless ungodly space An instance uploaded
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Aug 7, 2015
Aug 7, 2015 at 9:48 PM UTC
Deus Ex Machina
market report: spinning on an axis of complexity phrase captures and enraptures, buried deep in one of the countless market reports that arrive every minute out of date by the time they press the end/send button but this rises up from the forged gorge throat and all the rest falls away spinning on an axis of complexity sticks like Elmer's glue, white viscous, good for paper & skin, cause you knew precision revision incision instantaneous, they are intended for your eyes only, pasted to your eyes, tinged tongue screaming you man, you poem there is no difference, for both at 1:55am   where time is sleep verboten,   when words are blood platelets in a mystery entitled spinning on an axis of complexity human must eat human must work human must love human must sort the juggling orbs, too much new information constant and brain incapacitated *while falling-spinning when eyes now fully glued shut by the complexity of clashing algorithms writing this market report on the state of me, the passionate impartial analyst who boldly reveals, he proclaims he owns stock in himself and issues a sell recommendation* the complexity-situation trending signals crash a-coming, and at 1:59am after composing this hissy fit writ, he downgrades the official outlook to sell and lies down on the kitchen floor and laughs with the angel dudes eating bagels and holding their sides, cause they have been running a short position up in heaven 6/22/17 2:05am nyc
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Jul 13, 2017
Jul 13, 2017 at 11:01 PM UTC
market report: spinning on an axis of complexity
Selling self to fall from grace in divided attention to tease the waste, leak control to test and tame. The serpent coils to eat its tail cages the want to set to sail, clips the wings and leaves me lame. One hand in clichés One hand in disdain and repetition of broke algorithms. You turn me on what more can I say, the neon strip led me astray Writhing sighn lights of the merry-go-round and cogs grind round and wheels resound; when’ll it stop, when I already know: "the answers present the wills ascent, the answer’s present, the wills ascent!" The mountain rises from my grave and simplicity simply fades Leak control to teaste and train. The dove leaves its cote at the door left ajar, loses the border to forget myself and name, as heart turns opaque for a lust in my life a love in my state; a firstless engine for algae rhythms. You turn neon and lead me to say” You freed me from this gravity gave me perfection, when I asked for distraction filled my need in evasion of wanton “Feel like I cheated, for empathy’s kiss, because the time we shed were tamed moments of bliss. With nothing to scar its memory. For our moments shared, you are love to me.
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Jan 20, 2013
Jan 20, 2013 at 6:43 PM UTC
Saphire
Job searches getting me down I wait a few days and build up expectations of a keyword, only to be hit with my inexperience in strange computer programs Secret knowledge, have the behind the curtain research consultants No one wants to understand a fleeting past It’s all about what’s profit present an internet job board is a long look at the priorities of this nouveau world "culture" The top jobs are in marketing, turning spy loot into algorithms that explain to magistrates how the top brands can stay above the clouds It’s the only way they can look down My college has a vapid radio commercial advertising zesty summer programs - and I thought my prestigious public college was above that
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 9:40 PM UTC
Every Couple of Days
The clock smiled at us as if it knew we were lost. Unable to see the path, we continued along on the wrong side of the ones and zeroes. Tired of our aimless float; fumbling along in the vacuums of our ignorance. With all kinds of navigational aids to chart our journey we mostly relied upon the compass tattooed over our hearts While lost in the chasm of our indecision our bodies and minds listed. Our attempts to unpack the endless parcels of our unrest ... proved futile. So carefully, we re-learned the ABCs and re-interpreted the Western Canon, finding that it was only by closing our eyes that we were able to see; were able to feel. However, the rhythm was off which was immaterial  as our feathers were ruffled and the rhetoric was pluming. With the overture of the new day dawning we turned our back on the algorithms of our demise and shucked off self-imposed limitations. You see, it was thirty seconds to midnight and the world that never seemed to want us needed us now. So like anemic royalty, we took flight breathing down rarefied air and gulping the nuances of our resilience to swallow: our intergenerational trauma one more time.
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Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020 at 8:09 PM UTC
Plumage
Each day, we carry our names through urban terrain. For every letter laid out and shining atop the cityscape, a thousand more become garbage scattered in darkness. Yet I'm courted into thinking I'm on the right street by algorithms selling dopamine down Sideways Alley. Too soon after bearing my soul on the infinite scroll, tourists flock and flap to get at the itch on my back. Their words cut deep like plastic knives at a banquet. Their hearts warm like the walls of an empty fridge. Breadcrumbs left behind only lead to the trapdoor. Those in luxury estates who threw paint on a throne - their patches of land fertile and thriving up to the gates - offer tips on organic growth that can build into empires, while those packed in high-rise blocks act like bandits, egos painted loud on knock-off flags hung to balconies. What am I in this black hole of corrupted competition? Views above the skyline only provide anxious thoughts. Occasionally, I find answers in unseen neighbourhoods. An outstretched hand holds a glass of chilled apple juice. Now we go round each other's house to share fresh fruit.
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Sep 12, 2020
Sep 12, 2020 at 11:59 AM UTC
Fresh Fruit Shared
He worships at the shrine of capitalism prays for a better fiscal quarter with money spent in shopping malls, a scrambling search for off-the-rack meaning through blessèd, holy consumerism. He gives thanks to this, our daily microwave meal, while he mutters under his breath, “What be the will of these, our stock-market Algorithms?" He listens to sermons from business and econ profs preaching from the higher-education steeples, teaching students gathering like stampede sheeples, reaching for a measure of worth in semester-long bursts a silent choir scribbling in exam halls to petty praise, leaving them burned out, and crying on the bathroom floor, lights out, itching for a wink amidst insect hallucinations adrenaline rushed from Dexadrine or Adderall dissociation flushed from ketamine or alcohol asking, “What is wrong with me?” Seeking answers, he pays weekly penance to shrinks a confessional of mental disorders from the Gospel of DSM: “Forgive me, Doctor, for I have sinned. It has been seven days since my last confession. I’m obsessive, I’m depressive, antisocial personality, ADD or ADHD, I’m poor as I ever was and ever will be, I’m no service to society, I'm squandered in sobriety, but please keep my hands tied in these shackles of student debt!” And his only act of contrition is a medical prescription made sweeter to swallow at communion than the blood and body of Christ. Welcome, the new order! Welcome, the New Religion (TM)! Pray it will be a better one than what we left behind.
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 12:24 AM UTC
The New Religion
He worships at the shrine of capitalism prays for a better fiscal quarter with money spent in shopping malls, a scrambling search for off-the-rack meaning through blessèd, holy consumerism. He gives thanks to this, our daily microwave meal, while he mutters under his breath, “What be the will of these, our stock-market Algorithms?" He listens to sermons from business and econ profs preaching from the higher-education steeples, teaching students gathering like stampede sheeples, reaching for a measure of worth in semester-long bursts a silent choir scribbling in exam halls to petty praise, leaving them burned out, and crying on the bathroom floor, lights out, itching for a wink amidst insect hallucinations adrenaline rushed from Dexadrine or Adderall dissociation flushed from ketamine or alcohol asking, “What is wrong with me?” Seeking answers, he pays weekly penance to shrinks a confessional of mental disorders from the Gospel of DSM: “Forgive me, Doctor, for I have sinned. It has been seven days since my last confession. I’m obsessive, I’m depressive, antisocial personality, ADD or ADHD, I’m poor as I ever was and ever will be, I’m no service to society, I'm squandered in sobriety, but please keep my hands tied in these shackles of student debt!” And his only act of contrition is a medical prescription made sweeter to swallow at communion than the blood and body of Christ. Welcome, the new order! Welcome, the New Religion (TM)! Pray it will be a better one than what we left behind.
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(this festive traditional Central-Italian dish serves entire populations of citizens)     INGREDIENTS:      ♦  faith in God if unavailable, any stable moral-ethical framework can be used      ♦  esteem for traditional cultural values      ♦  willingness to say what you think      ♦  hatred of Political Correctness 1)   Wake up in the morning and breathe rinse your mind and other ingredients well from previous day’s brain-washing 2)   Refuse to believe media propaganda ask friends/family members to ignore mainstream media & close Facebook accounts 3)   Believe that God created Man and Woman in Genesis 4)   Refer to God as He main ingredient, beware of fire if Feminists/Genderqueer activists are near stove 5)   Define family as 1 man + 1 woman joined in marriage producing children let ingredients simmer. Add a pinch of absolute Biblical doctrine if desired 6)   Critique Cultural Marxism in ALL its overt & disguised manifestations 7)   Dissent from the One-World Techno-Narcissist mindset algorithms and search-filters complement this dish, but feel free to serve it on its own Persona Non Grata pairs well with a full-bodied Tuscan Chianti, or Montepulciano, but is especially enhanced by any vintage where the Grapes of Wrath are stored.
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Apr 1, 2019
Apr 1, 2019 at 5:55 PM UTC
Persona Non Grata
The census is a gun and every ten years for a bit of fun someone pulls the trigger. The body count gets bigger all the time because once a decade's far from fine,we all know that we want a little more but just who is keeping tabs on us and what's the score? If you're more than willing to fill in and tick the boxes one by one we'll carry on the same and be just a figure getting bigger reviewed by counters mounted in the book and taken down looked and read underlining, numbered in red ink and thumbed,fed into ,computerised until algorithms drip from and dot the eyes with postscripts slipped upon the page which mention dates of birth and gender this is the age of the want to know and we're being counted like sheep we go through turnstiles,smiling,clicking,sickening in the need to feed the ever growing need for information,technology will be the death of me and in a census yet to come or when my numbers up I will be done shot full of holes the census gun is indiscriminate but there's no fun or sense in that,they'll tamper with the workings,lay them flat and reassemble parts until we're part of some vast assembly in a Wembley stadium,the gun's the game we'll be numbered until the final whistle blows and someone goes to tally up the score and in the counting they'll count more and more as if in some final lunacy the lunatic accountants see there's numbers coming out of their ears and say, 'thank God it's only once every ten years' Data will as data does and do and who would count the countless where the few are many and any mistake means you have to start again. Censuses another pain and millions more and someone will come knocking on your door to give you forms and envelopes all hope's lost so be counted and don't count the cost let the ones who get paid for this kiss their sanity goodbye.
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Jul 7, 2013
Jul 7, 2013 at 11:38 PM UTC
Fingers and toes
The census is a gun and every ten years for a bit of fun someone pulls the trigger. The body count gets bigger all the time because once a decade's far from fine,we all know that we want a little more but just who is keeping tabs on us and what's the score? If you're more than willing to fill in and tick the boxes one by one we'll carry on the same and be just a figure getting bigger reviewed by counters mounted in the book and taken down looked and read underlining, numbered in red ink and thumbed,fed into ,computerised until algorithms drip from and dot the eyes with postscripts slipped upon the page which mention dates of birth and gender this is the age of the want to know and we're being counted like sheep we go through turnstiles,smiling,clicking,sickening in the need to feed the ever growing need for information,technology will be the death of me and in a census yet to come or when my numbers up I will be done shot full of holes the census gun is indiscriminate but there's no fun or sense in that,they'll tamper with the workings,lay them flat and reassemble parts until we're part of some vast assembly in a Wembley stadium,the gun's the game we'll be numbered until the final whistle blows and someone goes to tally up the score and in the counting they'll count more and more as if in some final lunacy the lunatic accountants see there's numbers coming out of their ears and say, 'thank God it's only once every ten years' Data will as data does and do and who would count the countless where the few are many and any mistake means you have to start again. Censuses another pain and millions more and someone will come knocking on your door to give you forms and envelopes all hope's lost so be counted and don't count the cost let the ones who get paid for this kiss their sanity goodbye.
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The little blue birds have all flown away The tapestry of threads of conversation Dusty and rolled up in a corner The photos lie scattered on the floor The algorithms still remember And still remind me of you But the longer the red dots remain silent The faster the algorithms begin to enforce Your disappearance
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Jun 6, 2020
Jun 6, 2020 at 8:03 PM UTC
ALGORITHMS