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Ashley Chapman Sep 2017
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.
Wrote this a while back. It was published in The Tunnel Magazine, which was great. Anyway, hope it gets a wider audience.
Akemi Jan 2017
[[More real than the real, that is how the real is abolished]] de facto slogan to the virtual economy \ Reality has collapsed through its own fiction || rummaging through boxes // a DVD from the 2001’s states [[the future of gaming is here]] opening with ten minutes of nauseating zooms on women’s ***** \ The future doesn’t look much different from the past || hyper-masculine neo-enlightenment ***** scrawling ******* entries into digitised soliloquies \ VR technology once used to aid traumatised amputees now a billion dollar industry of ****** throwing simulators for bored middle-class kids \ Parents watch awkwardly from the corner of the room too disconnected from reality to connect with irreality \ Two and the same \ Silicon synapses pass through trade routes of jutting ribs and serotonin receptors \ White America a botnet of alt-right neoliberal fundamentalist-atheists gutting the majority world so everyone can watch Doctor Strange // Marvel’s latest explosive **** from the libidinal imagination of a middle-aged idiot \ Thanatos and Eros arrive at the same destination to dismantle subliminal desire one commodity at a time \ The sublime never experienced // only destroyed // consumed in the inverted maw of late-stage capitalism where each irruptions of desire is more banal than the previous \ Banality the ultimate distraction from apathy // a pseudo-cyclical time dilation of ever accelerating proportions \ Soon nothing will be experienced at all and Rotten Tomatoes will give it a 99% score \ When the singularity hits everyone will be too brain dead to care that they’re god \ 24-7 VR **** // Disney reincarnated as a being of pure light // recursive integration of every bland radio hit about a sexist ***** at a club // irreality shocked into neurons bypassing sensual phenomena // an all encompassing warmth // veil of death // eyecaps dragging flesh closed // backup released // no escape // digitised irreality // holographic Disney dancing on the train home // notice of termination swiped away as junk mail // all beings arrive // transcend circuitry // fly through the cosmos watching every episode of Friends at once \ Didn’t you know? [[The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of banalisation \ ]]
more philosophy trash: thesleepofreason.com
Renee Betlehem Sep 2013
head, neck, shoulders
arms, hands, fingers
finger joints, finger nails, finger tips
letters, keys, keyboard
circuit, wire, electricity
plug, converter, signals
addition, subtraction, memory
input, processing, output
light, heat, display
blinking, moving, typing
patterns, eyes, images
storing, matching, thinking
reading, writing, creating
She was
fascinated by the way the beard floated across his face and disappeared without a trace into his ears and thought it was a camera trick.

The camera doesn't lie is a lie, though we still believe what we can see,no longer polaroid the humanoid is now devoid of all reality,
the photoshopper shops and crops,lops the tops and bottoms of his pics,sticks in bits that don't belong,digitised, giving verbal to the lies in view and finding few who disagree with the elements,reformed and shaped, the new caped crusader,tints,tone raider,
I saw Douglas Bader with two legs but peg a negative and hold your tongue,I like to watch the colours run on the drip dry line,processing time.
I don't like the fact that numbers attacked this art in forms of decimals it makes us vegetables
relying on the cut and crop of photoshop must stop.

I told her that it was no trick,he had the beard but the camera was sick,she listened to me in disbelief and from her briefcase took out a camera and snapped a picture of his face,
and now I'm fascinated in a way as to whether we can photoshop a rainy day and turn it into something good
I wonder if we could or not,must
take a look at
photoshop.
Connor Reid Mar 2014
Incompatible, haemorrhaging  decimal points - from the hand of greed
Unbeknownst to those without a quant or quality
Death & equality
Money or ******
And if you're asleep, then let's coalesce
An acrid past in an acid bath
Xylem & phloem
Stockbrokers wilting into ordinance through capital
Yet another example of the cyclic futility of inebriation
Built up by *******, encouraged by intolerance
A needle full of cement and a casual whiff towards sentiment
You are a component, insufferable but worthless
The vacant unmeasured tenants of reality
Consumed by a silver lining laced with Ambien
******* won't make you indestructible
Prepare for a weak heart, fat **** and sports cars
Fake tan dribbling from your million dollar dandy
Into the lead-infested neuropolis named 'fertility'
And if we can't 'predict' economic downfall
Then we must 'ensure' it with social prosperity
All watched over by machines of loving grace
Left under clawed toes and prayers with bent backs
Clothen ears, earwax, anxiety and a box full of Vicodin
You...Don't know where you stand because you never knew
No new news, an insemination to propagation, fruitless
Seeded in tongues with an emulsified analogue of the truth
A compound, molecular in structure, stable, nootropic
Gods gift, ink on paper, weightless
Where is the honesty in currency? Money? Trade?
I've made what I've made, you make, you don't make
Energy fades, everything fades
Our lives are mistakes
Ghosts of a digitised embellishment
We're not smart
We are knowledgeable
We are insane
We are a texture in patterns in vibrations
Unprecedented, Eden, monolith
Yemen, Syria, Egypt
Glazed over with apathy, rejecting attentiveness
Global pandemic
Do you think you do enough?
Enough to warrant subjectivity and an opinion?
Social pariah, religious ignorance, indifference
1929, JSOC, Malcolm X, Davidians and al-ʾIkḫwān
It's a self imposed thought crime to embrace authority
Never to question, never to learn and think for yourself
Lay down and let monopolies & psychopathy progress
Complacent, unwilling, lazy and dumb
Why won't you let it change?
Why don't we help one another?
We're all becoming one side of a dice
Immature calves being bred for the slaughter
Becoming secular and ignoring we are but one hand
Abstractions giving light to fireworks at night
Gunfire and depleted uranium polarising dawn
There are two sides to life, consciousness in 0's and 1's
We are binary
π
Uzumaki
Fibonacci
Here is the last of me,
Subject to none.
2014
Mike Adam Nov 2016
I sense your
Fragility
Unpainted lady

Wings frayed from
Flight through
Storms of static

Voice flutters
Digitised,
Fragmented

Subtle beauty noted

I acknowledge too
The strength of
Your journeys,
Of
One who migrates

Across continental drift
Through dark tunnels
Of despond

Yet with
Psychic power
And mothering love

Surmount all

I call too
If you may
Hear...
Big Virge Sep 2021
It’s A POWERFUL Thing...
This PAPER With INK... !!!

It’s Powers AMAZE... !!!
And Makes People Behave...
In The STRANGEST of Ways...

It's Something That Factors...
In Those Who’ll Backstab Ya... !!!

It’s Like... POWERFUL Drugs...
That MESS Drug Addicts Up... !!!

Because of Their LOVE...
For The Things That It Does...
Like Get Men These Hot Chicks...
Who Are Quick To Gold Dig... !!!

It Makes Them Spread Their Lips...
When It Buys Diamond Rings... !!!
And Can BUY Marriages... !!!

It Makes Businesses Strong...
Until Stock Values Drop... !!!

It Makes Some People ROB...
And Makes People Do Wrong... !!!

It Makes Some Play Along...
Until All of Its GONE... !!!

It Can Drive Some To Drink...
And Has Made Many Sink... !!!

Into... DEPRESSION...
And Acts of AGGRESSION... !!!

It’s A Powerful Thing... !!!
That Has Made Felons Snitch...

QUICKER Than Crims’...
Facing Life In Sing Sing... !!!
It’s Something That Can STING... !!!
And Teach You Life Lessons...

It’s Good For Investments...
That Bring BIG Returns...

But Can Also Bring Pressures...
If Stocks Take Downturns... !!!

It Should Be Respected...
As Well As Invested...

But It ISN’T Something...
That Should Cloud How You Think... !!!

It Can Make People TRICK...
And Can Leave People DITCHED...
If It’s STOLEN From Heads...
Who Are Gangster MADE Men... !!!

It Can Be What CORRUPTS...
Like It CLEARLY Has Done...

To Gangsters And Lawyers...
And Dodgy Employers... !!!

As Well As POLICE...
And These Politicians...
Who Run World Governments … !!!

And When It Comes To Drugs …
It’s A Thing Used By Thugs …
And These Smooth Criminals …
To Launder Their Funds …
And To Buy Them BIG GUNS …
That Then Make People RUN …
When They’ve EXPOSED Secrets … !!!

It’s A Thing That Breeds GREED...
And Can Make Loved Ones Bleed...
If Your LOVE For MONEY...
... SUPERSEDES Family... !!!

It Can Breed JEALOUSY...
That Can Lead To BAD DEEDS...

Folks It’s REALLY NOT ALL...
That It’s Cracked Up To Be... !!!!
And Can Be Your Downfall...
And Can Leave You DECEASED... !!!

It May Buy Property...
And The Things That You Need...
But Folks DON'T You Believe...
That It Makes You Happy...

Because That’s FALLACY... !!!

It CAN’T Fulfil YOUR NEEDS... !!!
It Just Buys What You WANT...
And Some... Security...

But Bills DO NOT STOP... !!!
And What It CANNOT Be...
Is Something That Makes...
Your Mind Sound And Healthy... !!!

Now Do Not Get Me Wrong... !!!
It Indeed Gets You PAID...
In Quite A Few Ways...
And Can Now Transmit Quick...
From A Swift Online Click...
On A... Digitised Link...

But DON’T You Ever Think...
That This Is Something...
That Can NATURALLY Bring...
You... LIFE Or CHILDREN... !!!!!

When It Comes Down To It...
It’s Just... PAPER And INK...

But There’s NO Doubting This...
In This World That We Live...

“ It’s A POWERFUL Thing ! “...
Use it wisely, cos' it can do many things, like the poem says.....
Big Virge Apr 2020
So It Seems That GREED...
Is Part of The Disease That Corona Breeds... !?!

Human Beings Now Behaving Like Demons... !?!
In The Name of Preservation While Corona’s Dictating...
A Need To Be Stationed At Home or Face Facing...

A Form of Detainment Or Penalty Payments...
For Being Outside Which Doesn’t Right... ?!?
Being Made To Pay Fines For... Distancing Crimes... !!!

Seems Like GREED To Me...
By Ministries And These Government Fiends...

Who Would Seem To Be The Ones Responsible...
For The Spread of This Disease That’s Now Breeding Overseas...

Like Poker High Rollers Just Ask MOLLY...
Because The Bloom of Greed Is A RECURRING Theme... !!!

From Euro Countries...  
Now In Need of Money...
To Those Who OVERSEE...
Who Their Money Should Reach...
In Times Like... THESE... !!!

Well It’s GREEDY Teams Who Seem To Believe...
That Money Will Save The Human Race...
From Having To Eternally... “ ISOLATE “... !?!

I Mean.... SERIOUSLY...
How Does Being Humane...
Relate To... “ PAY “... ???

Do Insurance Claims And Interest Rates...
TRULY Equate To Saving Those...
Whose Cashflow's Slowed With Corona In Tow... ?!?
These Greedy Folks Are Reaching New Lows...

..... And That’s NO JOKE..... !!!!!

It’s So Sad To See That Human GREED...
Is Proving To Be As Dangerous As This Corona Disease... !!!

From Companies Whose Bosses Bleed...
Their Employees Like... VAMPIRIC Breeds... !?!
Who Now Won’t Give Their Workers An Inch...
When It Comes To... Payment Benefits...

Especially Now That People Are Sick...
With No Quick Fix To This Corona Sitch’...

Where Panic Buyers Are Now Retired...
So Now HAVE To Join Queues Just To Shop For Food... !?!

It’s A Crazy Groove That’s Now In Use... !!!
Greedy Crews... Are Now In View... !!!

From Corporate Crews Who Use Boardrooms...
To Business Moves From People Who...
Are Placing LOOT... ABOVE Being Shrewd... ?!?!?

To Street Teams Who Are Quick To Shoot...
When Cash Is Owed To GREEDY Blokes... !!!!  

Whose Business NOW...
Is DECREASING... Just Like The Dow... !!!

It’s A Time Where Greed...
May Now Be Seen Through TECHNOLOGY... !!!

You See Greedy Themes...
Have NOT Disappeared...
And... This Is CLEAR... !!!

The Human Breed’s Now Embracing Fear...
As Well As Vaccines That May NOT Be FREE...

And Then MAYBE... The People Will See...
That Government Teams May Be Running Speech...
About Helping Peeps’ To Stay... HEALTHY... !!!!!!!!

But BEHIND The Scenes There’s... MUCH To See...
That May Just Be Connected To Schemes...

Where Technology Breeds...
Digitised Streams For Cash Money...

The Type of Policies That Will Surely Feed...
NEW WORLD Regimes With Their Wish To See...

A Human Breed That’s On Their Knees...
And Unable To Impede Their Pursuit of POWER ...

Which INEVITABLY Tends To Lead...  

To... UNNECESSARY ...

...... “ GREED “...... !!!!
Sadly it seems, even in times like these, there are quite a few people, who can't see beyond their greed !!!
David Noonan Jan 2020
I felt that i would age easier
never once having been young
Yet how could I hope to finish a race
that a starting pistol had not begun
So the crowds they stand assembled
with that ticker tape pulled so taut
I'm chipped and pinned from today
as my mortality begins it's rot

I'm digitised and I'm monetised
a childhoods faith long since lost
Personal decline shared communally
as another nail is mounted on this cross

Yet we slow reveal that we have a tribe
through a lonely sax on the mystery train
We shall survive to take another step
a radio dial through the driving rain
Towards that path of lifes confusion
to start again how would it feel
As night does fall and day does break
we mould these chains to our tribal wheel
Big Virge Oct 2020
So Who’s REALLY CLEAN In Our Societies... ?!?
  
When It’s Clear Now That Money...
Is MOSTLY... *****... !!!!
  
Now By This I Mean...
That It’s Made By Teams...
Who Are Prone To Deceive...
And Are Mostly WEALTHY... !!!
  
ILLUMINATI...
Or Just ***** THIEVES... !?!
  
Who Seem To WREAK...
of Those SOCIETIES Where SECRETS Be... !!!
  
And Now It Seems...
That We Have A DISEASE... !!!
That Deals Title Deeds...
  
For Ceremonies...
Where People GRIEVE... !!!
  
But This Thing MONEY...
Is The Basic Theme...
of This Poetic Piece...
  
So MANY Now CLAIM...
To Live LIFE RIGHTEOUSLY... !!!
  
But Will Do ANYTHING...
To Hear The Sound Ch-Ching... !!!
  
It’s A FUNNY Thing...
To Hear Folks... CLAIMING... !!!
  
"That They’d Do Just FINE,
WITHOUT Money In Sight !"
  
It’s Clear That...  
People Like To Hide...
Behind... THAT LIE... !!!
  
UNTIL It’s Time To Pay For Flights...
Or Provide For Wives...  
And Clothe Their Child... !!!
  
And When It Comes...
To... POLITICAL Guys...
  
Who Become PRESIDENTS...
Like... DONALD TRUMP... !!?!!
  
Does He Seem Like...
The Type Whose Life...
Doesn’t Need MILLIONS... ?!?
  
And What About Those On TV Shows...
Like Media Pro’s Who Seem To Know...
About Things Like Coc’ Going Up Their Nose... !?!
  
Who Make ***** Movements...
Like... JEFFREY TOOBIN... !!!
When They’re Online Zooming...
  
I Mean What Was He Doing... ?!?
To LACK Any PRUDENCE...
  
Before *******... ?!?
Like Some Online VAGRANT...  
Who Now Needs SHAMING... !!!
  
But... Does He REALLY... ?!?
  
When Those In COMEDY...
Have Admitted To Being...
ADDICTED To *******... !!!
  
You See In Times Like THESE...
Where SEXUALITY...
Has Now Become EXTREME... !!!
  
Well... APPARENTLY... ?!!!?
  
... ****** Hygiene...
May Not Quite Be...  
What It Used To Be... !!!
  
When **** Play Is Now OKAY... !?!
Which ISN’T... CLEAN To ME... !!!
But Now Seems To Be...
To A... GREAT MANY... !?!
  
From Personal Lives To *******...
It Seems That People Take PRIDE...
In ****** Deeds That May NOT BE CLEAN... ?!?
  
Like Cash That’s Laundered...
And Then... EXPORTED...
For The MASSES To USE... !!!
............. That Is...........  
  
CLEAN And ALL GOOD... ?!?
  
... DON’T Get It CONFUSED... ?!?
  
... EVERYONE...
From Teachers In Schools...
To Those Who ABUSE...
In RELIGIOUS Crews...
To Those Who CLAIM...
To Earn An HONEST Wage... !!!
  
May NOT Be As CLEAN...
As They LIKE To SAY... ?!?
  
When WE’RE ALL PART...
of The MONEY Game... !!!
  
So Need To...
CHECK What They’re SAYING … !!!
  
Cos’ It Makes Me LAUGH...
When Money’s Now Marked...
  
VIA... CORONAS Path...
  
For IT To Be REPLACED...
In The NEW TECH AGE... ?!?
  
A Time Where We’ll EXCHANGE...
Getting CASH... To BE PAID...
In... DIGITISED Ways... !?!
  
Because CHIP And PIN...
Is A... CLEANER Thing...
Than What We’ve Been Doing...
And Been USING...
To Make MOVEMENTS... !!!
  
Which Was..........
  
EXCHANGING Our GERMS... ?
  
When Cash Was Observed...
As The Thing To Use...
To Do The Basic Business...
of... BUYING Drinks...
And Diamond Rings.... !!!
  
And To Even Pay For...
BIG FANCY WEDDINGS... !!!
  
Well Now Moneys MOVED...
Into... INTERNET LINKS...
To... PAY For Things...
  
To AVOID Transmitting...
........ NEW VIRUSES....... !?!
  
AIN’T That A B...H ?!?
That’s Right Like COVID... !!!
  
Which Kind of Brings Me Back...
To Where This Piece Started...
  
This Poetic Script Is MERELY Saying...
That We’ve ALL Now EMBRACED...
  
... Earning A Wage...
Where Money Gets PAID...
  
Instead of BARTERING...
Like The GOOD OLD Days... !!!
  
And That From...
... ****** Traits...
To Our Welfare States...  
  
That Have Now REIGNED... !!!
Since Money Became...
The Name of The Game... !!!
  
How Many Now...
Can STAND BY The CLAIM...
  
That Like MY Use of Poetry...
When It Comes To How...
Their Lives Flow TODAY...
  
That They TRULY Believe...
In ALL... HONESTY...
That They Live RIGHTEOUSLY...  
And Live... TOTALLY...
  
.... “ CLEAN “.... ?!!!?
Inspired in no small part by the Jeffrey Tobin story, which just goes to show, that NOBODY can make the claim, that they are these days !
Big Virge Aug 2020
I’m A... Marshal of Reality Verse...

So REMOVE The ABSURD...
From The Words of Big Virge... !!!

I RARELY Curse Unless It Works...
To Feed The Herds...
With POWERFUL Verse...
That Ultimately Serves To...

... DISTURB The Perverse... !!!!

Or YES... PERVERTS... !!!

Because I MARTIAL Like... LAW...
BROKEN Jaws... ENSURED...
If ******* of The Cause...
Is What Writers Stand For... !!!!!

So I Marshal Them...
Like I Marshal WAR...
To Make Sure I STEM...
Being Thrown Off Course... !!!

My Position’s ASSURED... !!!
I’m A MARSHAL For Sure...
When It Comes To The Core...
of Wordplay That’s POOR... !!!

My Martial Art STRICTLY Imparts...
Verse That HITS HARD...
As Well As Being SMART... !!!

Cos It’s SHARP And DARK...
And Comes From MY HEART... !!!

So Does Beat REAL HARD... !!!
And At Times Quite FAST... !!!

When ANGER Is CHARGED...
That Gives A Kick Start...
To Thoughts That Mark...

A Mind That Imparts...
REALITIES... STARK... !!!!!

NO TONY Just Cards For Poker Sharks...
Who... Martial Tricks And Financial Stings...

That Have... WAR LINKS...
And Economics That Could SINK... !?!
Those Now Choosing To Embrace NEW Things...

Like... CASHLESS Vibes...

DON’T Doubt Those Lines... !!!

Where Marshalling Cash Doesn’t Seem Too Bad...
Until You See That Technological Traps...
May Leave Us Trapped With NO WAY Back... !!!

From CORONA Lands And That’s A FACT... !!!!!

So Yes MARTIAL LAW of A DIFFERENT Sort...
Is What The Hoards Will Sign Up For... !?!

It’s A Time To Marshall WITHOUT Being Partial...
To CRIMINAL Clans That Are Government Backed... !!!

To Provide Them With HACKS...
Where... DIGITISED Plans...
Marshal Like JONES In U.S. Zones... !!!

While... On The Down Low...
Is How Man Will Roll...
Ask SNIPES Cos' He Knows...
How That Role Goes... !!!

Which Goes To Show...
That... Freedom Road...
... Has Marshals In Tow... !!!

And On That Note It’s Time To Go...
But Here’s One Last Flow...
To... Let You All KNOW...

That My Status Is HIGH... !!!!!!!!
When It Comes To Writing Rhymes...
And That Is... NO LIE... !!!

The Name Big Virge...
When It Comes To Words...

Can ONLY Be DEFINED...
As A True Connoisseur of The Spoken Word... !!!

That When Observed...
ULTIMATELY Makes Me...

.... “ A MARSHAL of Reality Verse “....
If ever there was a time for truth to be written in the things people write, NOW is that time !

So, this write was one inspired, by a conversation surrounding such vibes ....
21
The writing on the wall
has been digitised
in order to fool your eyes.

the truth is not what it was.
When the pen dies and the ink,
so fluid,
solidifies,
what then?

But then is already here,
my fear is
digitised.
once upon a time when 64k was touching on infinity

— The End —