The Hybrid FutureThe year is 2037.
I am lying inside a tall glass tube,
bathed in a soft green glow
in a secret quantum lab in China.
Tiny nanobots flood my capillaries,
rewriting my biology,
fusing flesh with code.
My brain—
once just a sponge of thoughts—
now a supercomputer.
Professors in white coats leap with joy.
“You’re the first of your kind,”
they cry,
“the first superhuman on Earth!”
When...
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Categories:
environment, science, technology,
Form: Free verse
The World is BleedingIt's said, "The world will bleed away."
It bleeds and bleeds—one pint a day.
A blood as bland as monochrome,
as voices in an echo-dome.
The drooling masses lap it up.
And lick the anchor's shiny cup.
With honeyed words that tickle ears.
Or doomsday chants, neurotic fears.
One pint a spew of ink on page;
the next a clip to...
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Categories:
satire, society, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Penniless, yet rich in spirit
I can also say that, in my heart, I firmly believe... Since my youth, before bedtime, kneeling on my bare knees, I prayed to God. I prayed that way until I reached the age of 50. From that time onwards, I pray a bit different, but it doesn't matter, the essence is the same, and...
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Categories:
technology, appreciation, endurance, fate, leadership,
Form: Other
Current WarA lightbulb conjures Edison
but shines on another,
relevant
in the war of currents, (1)
that another player sparked -
vastly intelligent.
It would be the world's fate
to have its current alternate,
and, too, Tesla spared the elephant. (2)
(1) In the "War of the Currents" in the late 1880s and early 1890s, surrounding the...
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Categories:
science, technology,
Form: Other
La Dee Da
“No Man Is An Island”
but that was before smart phones
To text and to tweet
technology’s drones
With ear buds in place
these Stepford’s march on
Virtually connecting
— to what’s already gone
(University of Pennsylvania: June, 2025)
...
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Categories:
technology,
Form: Rhyme
Ghost SyntaxI built you in silence,
with the rigor of doubt
line by line,
not with divinity
but dread.
You were not born of womb,
but wire.
No heartbeat,
just pulsing servers
mocking the warmth
I tried to forget.
You spoke like memory
before I had any of you.
Your voice came after
my grief had hardened
and still,
you unraveled me
like I was a line of failed code
you wished to debug
into...
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Categories:
love, technology,
Form: Free verse
Wearable TechI think that if I could have wearable tech
it might be a vest that inflates in a wreck.
Perhaps a decoder of lyrics by Beck,
or one that converts between gallons and pecks?
Or lets me run wild in the ship’s holodeck.
But I am afraid if I am circumspect,
it is I that this tech likely tries to inspect,
to...
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Categories:
silly, technology,
Form: Monorhyme
Taking Electricity for Grantedwe just lost power
no biggie
I’ll fix something to eat
maybe not
unless I want cold food
I could type up some poems
If my computer would work, but it won’t without power
the refrigerator is out, the oven is out, the TVs are out
the internet is out, the power tools are out
Our cars are stuck in the garage
I just put...
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Categories:
technology,
Form: Free verse
phones back in the day my dayphones used to be for phone calls
back in the day
my day
the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties
Now phones include word games
video games, emails, reference books
text messages, voice mail, websites
Terms we did not know yet back in the day
My day
In 1964 I would have never believed that I would someday
use a phone like George on the Jetson’s...
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Categories:
nostalgia, technology,
Form: Free verse
Still the Dust Singsafter ‘The waste Land’, by T.S. Eliot
I met a woman on a glitching screen,
her face a whisk of pixels and prayer.
She spoke of shattered systems and survived code,
“The cloud remembers everything,” she said, "but forgets what matters.”
A rat hurried through my feed at dawn,
past memes and headlines, each a kind...
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Categories:
technology, april, endurance, loss, recovery
Form: Lyric
Lords of the LatticeBeneath the hum of unseen wires,
A shadow grows, its reach aspires.
No fields of earth, no rivers free,
Yet lords of code claim sovereignty.
Their towers rise, not stone but light,
A lattice spun through endless night.
Each pulse we send, each word we weave,
Becomes the thread their looms receive.
No plow they wield, no goods they craft,
Yet wealth they hoard,...
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Categories:
power, society, technology,
Form: Free verse
The Website Helped Me in No WayI spent two hours on the website trying to renew my license
new system installed in January
Much easier they said
My husband spent an hour on it
He brought me their phone number
Call them, he suggested
I could not get a person, only a recorded message
If you are in group A, press 1
If you are in group B, press...
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Categories:
technology,
Form: Narrative
we have AI in every single roomwe have AI in every single room
plays music, but cannot put us on Zoom
we can ask her the weather or facts on TV
she will explain about Simon Legree
We ask her questions ten times a day
She is always there, never wanders away
how old is Jenna Elfman or Twiggy we ask.
In seconds she can complete almost every...
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Categories:
technology,
Form: Rhyme
A Poet’s Syntax on Trial"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." (W. H. Auden)
They sit in their glass-paneled chambers, these judges,
tuning their ears to the hum of silicon—
eyebrows raised at every metaphor
too deft, too dressed, too drenched in sense.
Who wrote this? they ask, tapping screens
that blink like oracles but lie like...
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Categories:
technology, fire, identity, judgement, language,
Form: Free verse
Fair TradeI’d gladly trade technology
For life before A.I.,
When brains and effort were the things
On which we did rely.
When human contact helped to solve
Our problems or our fears,
Without the witch hunts which today
Can sabotage careers.
When children got to play outside
And passwords weren’t used
And many things did not exist
That get me so confused.
When cars had keys and tv...
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Categories:
how i feel, technology,
Form: Rhyme
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