You Cosmic Poetic Butterfly
When your mind—
The c o c o o n
Of your spirit—
Re
lea
ses,
With your essence
Of healing words,
Let the rhythmic
Wings of your being,
Soar you—
Streamlining
Airways
Of life—
Of graceful
Liberation,
To those cosmic beings
In the universe of life:
Awaiting its
Hydrating
Oxidation
Of the
Onederful
Onement
Of the
Oneness
Of your
Ondering
Peace
And
Love.
In an instant blanketed with a saudade,
the parking lot’s never been so bloated.
I guess now the cat’s out of the bag,
without the cars something is missing.
That shared goal held us all together,
in an instant blanketed with a saudade.
Competition erased hybrid’s in place,
the once bustling office now half-empty.
Streamlining disconnected the approach
now scripted we’re little more than robots.
In an instant blanketed with a saudade,
once the mission felt more like friends.
Brought back to life by a celebration
I sit gazing at this vision of the past.
An imitation of what will never be again,
in an instant blanketed with a saudade.
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.
Computer-virus
A type of sirus?
Dog eared pedantic
Repetitive on automatic
Amorphic invasion maybe
Pushing for an erasion
Removing African
Eroding the Eurasians
Punishing most Asians.
Compute such dogma’
Hirsute not an option
In streamlining concoctions
Refuting forbidden
Ideas free and falling,
In ides of transitioning
Islands of resistance
Enlightement most insistent
Fighting fiercely for freedom
Against the force of dis-reason.
Also think again?
On that verbiage?
Does it define our
Stagnant garbiage?
©Joe Maverick 13-6-2022
Man is often nervous at gunpoint,
Speedily answering an unasked question,
Bank account details releasing as a rescuing option;
Mr. Pile would scatter what he’d long piled up,
Ready for a new relationship with a plastic cup.
Man reveals peculiar intelligence at gun point,
Wonderfully streamlining every bogus speech,
A Breathing Ingenuity, magically of a peach:
The Fittest for an ambassadorial job,
From him taken, one did him rob.
Some men strike up humour at gunpoint,
Facing fingers patient on the trigger
And ears for stories with their surprises getting bigger;
A lurking hope the enemy would turn a friend
And a downright embarrassment come to an end.
Some men take risks at gunpoint,
Sticking to their ungovernable temper;
A crazy belief it makes matters simpler,
At worst, their hostage taker raves but soon is back
While they freely walk away, on their body no crack.
Some men get romantic at gunpoint,
When the pointer is the opposite sex
And her inviting looks summon his Present or Ex;
More thoughts of sweet sex than bitter death,
More memories of Love Gardens than a heath.
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!!!
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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