From lies in books they set us free
Encyclopedias are redacted
And Satie’s fourth Gymnopedie
Flooded with likes from the attracted
I’m living in the brave new world
It works far freakier than Huxley’s
I’m bought and sold and I download
I get the codes to use them aptly
I’m quite a modern chap these days
No more a fossil left in lurch
Daedalus AI builds new maze
Keeps every Theseus in search
Where is that famous silver thread?
But I just passed the exit gate
I heard the Minotaur is dead
The ambulance arrived too late..
Does it all matter?
That I am gay, I am a lesbian?
Does it all matter?
that I am transgender, I am Intersexual?
or rather Asexual?
tell me,
Why does it matter
how I walk,
How I dress,
How I speak.
Is my confidence threatening you perhaps?
That you want to crush my spirit so bad
with silly questions and remarks.
I am a she, she is a she
and the bravery of asking "who is the man in the relationship"
I mean...?
Can't you see the breast breathing out the chest?
He being a he, dating a he
and you still ask the same question " who is the woman in a relationship"
I mean...?
Do ya'll understand what sexuality is?
Do ya'll understand its fluidity?
However, it shouldn't even matter to you what gender anyone is attracted to
It is their life afterall,
Go clear your confusions in encyclopedias
In CAPS this is my conclusion,
It is none of your business who I attract,
and it is none of your business who I am attracted to.
Perhaps this is the kind of letter you have been waiting to recieve
SEXUALITY is FLUID.
Professors found a haven in academia
a safe port in the storm of big business' toxemia
As meaningful as writing articles for encyclopedias
as daring as interning for social media...
So now Professor's young charges want 'safe spaces'
far away from the slug-it-out world of rat races
Let me prove my point, get down to actual cases
to ensure I've covered my derriere and other places
dictionary pup wanted to know each and every word.
he read the encyclopedias, which some said was absurd.
he took a pile of magazines and novels to his bed.
falling asleep among books that were green, blue and red.
you have to cut this out, his mother said, quite stern.
but how else will I glean knowledge? How else will I learn?
she had no argument for that, so he kept doing what he did.
he is a college professor at Yale, this inquisitive pup kid.
“We will change the earth, and make it clean!
All evil leaders shall not succeed.
Illness, death shall never be seen!”
Doth does man drool in his ignominious dreams.
Thinking...they are gods, as if He is dead?
Fools run the earth with evil intent.
Lies and fat egos, dance in their heads.
Propaganda does small minds bend.
Always busy online and on Social Media,
Lies grow huger, with truth gasping for breath!
Mankind thinks, they are walking encyclopedias?
Bringing society to its own uncivilized death.
Yes! But how do these fools and knaves know it all?
Google, the new Bible and eternal fountain of truth!
Mankind brought on their own early, downfall.
King Soros, now rules this planet all, forsooth.
4-10-2022
Addicted to modern technology you say?
Nah, I could live without my Mac
Well, at least for maybe an hour or so
Before a withdrawal attack
First thing in the morning you'll find me here
Surfing and learning new things
Opening up and exploring new horizons
An amazing experience it brings
Text books and encyclopedias used to do it
The source for all my new learning
Today they've become much less important
The tide is definitely turning
Farewell to novels you held in your hand
Sadly they're becoming obsolete
No more sitting and reading by the seaside
With waves lapping at your feet
So say goodbye to how life used to be
Must adapt or get lost in the shuffle
Open your computer and start surfing away
Or wind up in a new age kerfuffle!
books study humans
encyclopedias mute ~
A boring subject
19 December 2021
I couldn’t live without my phone
Although when I was younger,
Since mobile phones did not exist,
I didn’t have that hunger.
I waited ‘til I got back home
To call a friend for schmoozing.*
My mom would write a message,
If I got one, for perusing.
Encyclopedias were there
To look up information.
No Google at my fingertips –
That was the situation.
A Kodak camera using film
Took photos that I needed.
Alarm clocks woke me up
So my anxiety receded.
Each application on my phone –
The games and WAZE and weather –
Are things I never had on hand,
At least not all together.
I lived without them easily,
Not feeling discontented
Until, of course, the year in which
The iPhone was invented!
*chatting, shooting the breeze
I am addicted
Addicted to word games
Playing others online
Who are also addicted
To word games
My mother loved
Playing Dabble
Her favorite word game
She had to beat the clock
And makes seven words
Out of thirty-two letters
Her legacy to me is
Keep your mind active
Learn something new every day
She was not an addict
But she did read encyclopedias for “fun”.
I remember how thrilled she was about new words
Which might explain me a bit.
My husband and I lie so often people fact check us
We are used to it and frankly do not care
Open encyclopedias bring us no fuss
We spout our fabricated truth into the air
Lingering among the stacks
Interval of serenity, a luxury to
Borrow a world, then bring it back
Riches of printed page, once few
Are carried throughout the community
Requiring only a card to belong
Young and old both given opportunity
Lending literacy to growing minds, strong
Out of many streets, they share the room
Vaulted ideas have a place to bloom
Encyclopedias of adventures to unpack!
1/22/19
Encyclopedias use to be several books of knowledge,until the computer came along.
Whatever our question
To find an answer to it
Prior to the Internet
~ How on earth did we do it?
We used encyclopedias
If we could afford a good set
Was there Father's Day in Ghana?
~ We might have hired a jet
Some went to the library
Others consulted a guru
As for hippies and yippies
~ They trekked to the Maha-rushu
That era's long gone
Those days are behind us
Now we just go click click
- And the answer's aligned for us
Yet one question is left
One question remains:
Once AI is triumphant
~ Will we still use our brains?
Who created what I need to know right now
I need to know the who , the what , the when , and how
The big bang theory is that just some host
Cause I believe everything came to be by my GOD and the HOLY GHOST
They teaches us that we form from the water s or some ape that walked the land
But my Bible teaches me that life was breathed into dust and that how GOD created man
Am I to believe all this to happen due to some type of calamity?
Or was everything spoke into existence the land and the seas
So you say from nothing there came something BOOM!! And everything was there
Yea let’s just say that I believe that one but even that boom had to come from somewhere
Well you can gone back to all your research through your encyclopedias and almanacs
But as for me I have my Bible which gives me all the facts
Words Without Meaning
Some words are sweet and juicy like fruit
Some are sour and cry rape
Others take flight beyond stars
We call them foreign as they burn out
They etch the framework of mind and soul and being in fear
Most letters form words on library shelves
Begin to love themselves at first, at birth
And hide in encyclopedias for centuries without meaning
They make their homes in dictionaries in plain sight, in pain
Waiting for their turn to be abused or even used
Most words are sweet and juicy
They speak the truth but sometimes they get lost
Words without meaning are the worst
Words without meaning try to come out
One day they tried to steal my words of love
And nearly broke my heart
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