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Mass Machinery of a Hydrocarbon Dream

Blinking lights,
Grey faces
         worn down by
   an endless chain
of encounters with machines
     Social life becomes 
a checkerboard 
     of electrical impulses
and responses
     Happiness has always 
                 been elusive
But do we really think 
         that we can 
cause it to turn on and 
        off like qa lightbulb
   Poe talked of science 
    stealing his "summer dream"
We know his point
        "In Spades"

Copyright © | Year Posted 2007




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