Fight the algorithms
that tell us what to do,
to make us predictable,
unoriginal and bankable.
Have you witnessed how
increasingly bland and homogenous
our lives are becoming?
Choose freedom
avoid the diaries of commerce
that riff on the ubiquity of apps
resist the reductive tropes
of our published and circulated,
perspective customer identities.
Fight the algorithms
with their embedded back-lot
familiarity, built around class
and consumerism.
Try to understand the
vague, inscrutable and
purposefully circuitous.
Or stop overthinking
and embrace liberating surrender.
That’s the path I’ve chosen.
.
.
The Gates by Da Vinci's Notebook
Talk Down Dijon
Categories:
homogenous, humor, internet, technology,
Form: Free verse
One day they gave a mighty global war,
The likes of which no man had ever seen.
The war was fought entirely by machine.
It lasted seven minutes and no more.
Two powers ideologically opposed
Created a mechanics' paradise.
They did not need to manufacture lies
Of how God's will and bias were disclosed.
No hero fell. No patriot died blessed.
No coward fled from hell with double scorn.
Homogenous battalions had been
In anonymity is power best.
It sounded like a million crashing trains,
Gouging limbs of steel and spurting oil.
It left a plain of black and battered soil
Strewn with plant and animal remains.
The war soon ran its course, and both sides lost.
Miscalculation made a lasting peace.
Neither side had wanted war to cease,
But neither side had thought about the cost.
Categories:
homogenous, war,
Form: Rhyme
I am each stone tossed around,
each droplet of sea mixed in,
pounding each stone, churning,
in time beating me smooth,
each impact, more homogenous,
trapped in the battle of land and sea,
an eternal ebb and flow,
crasshhh, another seamless brother,
broken in battle. Oh woe to
what was I, no more, lost,
treading on frequencies that can
carry I home, no longer anything but
the present, an old soul,
given new perspective in a shell
of life, born of a spore.
(Note: inspired by a shamanic walk with a friend in the dark of a winter’s night along a
stretch of wild and (nearly) untouched of Suffolk coastline.
Categories:
homogenous, adventure, faith, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse