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SILVER LIGHT
I once knew a man
who thought he was free
then looked in the screen
to see he was me
existing within a
square cage of silver light
watching ones and zeros
form black herrings on white
making instant choices
from what is seen in there
for goods and services
or victims begging care
watching vague images
upon a cave wall screen
real on the outside
unreal when inside seen
experiencing a life
whenever now or past
algorithm programmed
from the beginning to last
revising for myself
life-long identity
with beautiful people
appearing to be me
seeking virtual truth
from the assured appeal
of accepting all seen
as being really real.
Copyright © Jim Hanson | Year Posted 2023
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ALL ABOUT NOTHING
Long before modern nihilism
Plato spoke of khora,
the receptacle of nothingness
as the existential foundation
of all things shown and known.
Nonsense, the men of Athens said
for we stand firmly on the ground,
to which Socrates replied:
If no space is in and about the ground
how could you or me be found?
(And in China in this axial age
Lao Tzu told skeptical men the same:
The origin of things had no name
but as the nameless eternal Tao
for which nothing could be shown or known.)
Copyright © Jim Hanson | Year Posted 2022
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