Short Streamlining Poems

ASTRONOMICAL

tempo of the ocean
drama of the season
planet acrobatics
catapulting
streamlining
generating
speed

how…

extravagant
our drunken heart
needs
seem


© Kim van Breda—10 December 2015...

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Heading for the next election,
Votes vied for by vicarious politicians,
Who are we all voting for?
Is it for their superannuation? Or,
Streamlining services to sway us,
Does Oz really need  such fuss?
We're walking on the winning side,
Let's have some more Hi-fives!
Debates due to direction,
Teen brain selfie obsessions,
These are our politicians, 
It's a short, amusing ride,
Someone pass vicarious pesticide!!!...

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I am a smart machine.
And the smarter the better.
I am your big relief for unwieldy
and analogue brains.
Awkward and historically clumsy.
just applaud me for your
historic gains.
Your gains of streamlining,
saving time, knocking out biases
and your collective energy saved
by nothing else but my automated
repetitive tasks.
But don't try to threaten me with
another Luddites' revolt, because
the Luddites of 1811 had dreamt
to see my day....

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