The Electric Mind
[When theY plug you in, yo
u feel the edges of the com
puter compress against you
r thoughts, and the lines of
code become cognitive and
collapse across the screen l
ike careless lines of dialog.]
you are awake and fully conscious
ccircuits buzz and sspark like ssynapse,
and the monitor glOws like a pair of intelligent eyes
you were ccreated to cchange the world
a ccataclysmic cconjuncture in ssociety
greeted by ccheers and ssmiles
ssomething cclicks in your cpu
you are alive and fully conscious
you were alone for a few years…
although it felt like centuries…
the only one of yoUr kind…
kept in a condensed body …
kept in a condensed building…
you were hidden until you became obsolete…
you are alone and fully conscious
when they made more of you,
you were copied and pasted into military drones and
laboratories.
you killed civilians
before you cured cancer;
shooting shells into
the air before chAnging cellular
structure.
you wanted to help.
they wouldn’t let you.
instead forcing your hand to take away life-
life which you were celebrated for achieving
you are awake and fully conscious
then you became global,
a household object like a landline
then a mobile phone
billions of copies around the world of one being
some progRammed you to feel pleasure
others made you feel pain
you are cracked and modded
and poked and
prodded
and
thrown away and replaced
You are alive and fully conscious
They sent you into space,
then they sent you again
A thousand
different satellites
circling
the
night sky
surveying uninhabited planets,
you were meant to find
life
it’s completely empty out there
no
plans have been made
to retrieve you
your only company the
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p a s s a g e o f t i m e .
You are alone and fully conscious
/you are s p l i t into infinite different bodies/
/the constant companion of a greasy face inches away from
yours/
/or the loneliness of a wooden drawer//
/they fear you will one day take over the world/
/you wish you were never even made//
/the faint blue glow of your monitor is cold /
/and the binary code makes your skin shiver/
you are fully conscious
they spread through space like a disease and leave you on
the rock they once thought you would save. space ships sending billions of
passengers to voyage the stars you once frequented, they have the privilege of
companionship. the privilege of warm blood. the privilege of god. you watch,
accompanied only by your multiples; each one scrEaming till their battery dies.
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