I thought I'd write a poem called A.
I. Shock Art Paranoia Warning
but
in the process of it
something
occurred to me, and I
became frightened, and
it goes a little
something
like
this
see
every square inch of your own skin
(or anyone's): unique : locked-in
quite capable of being
exposed, indexed
and
the data is out there
we must confess
if there's any shame in it
(for sure, there is)
it's on every one
looking
collect and spread
not
shame on the one
who simply is
living her own life
carefree
or his
(don't let's kid
ourselves,
please.)
well we all own our own
skin and image as well, in
an ideal world
would be ours
to sell,
or keep,
cover up
or let shine,
let show
but unfortunately
it's just datapoints
in relation, you
know
and as soon as one has
a unique key? - And
we all do, you know,
it's just who we be -
every pattern that fits
caught captured in bins,
buffers by backdoors
raining streaming from clouds
broken free downpours
is regathered and proud
adding up stat-same
to astonished extent:
every single given image
collect the whole set
and more new each
day. Takes
a couple of
clicks, given
unique key to apply
it fits. Laid open and out
across the whole world
wide, decentralized free
distribution on every
side of raw, rough,
free materials. It
gets
easier each day
to reach out 'cross the world
and snag every snap, every
stray, each and every new
input in
catches more
in its sway
by established match.
Sole criterion: each
single algorithm fit
to one single individual
in every way known. Every
time any digital eye caught home
one square inch of skin.
It is fixed,
even if
unaware
That's a lesson set free
everywhere to apply.
oh,
grow up
it's
only you.
After all
And me.
Any one.
It's catch as catch can
game on play ball
everyone set free by
comparison, validated
and refined, building up
clearer faster and more
than before
every each match the new
files in: flagged, tagged
and fanned out to alerts,
updates on whoever anyone
once interested in, to
whoever just wanted
to know. Wow, great.
Who
knows how
many views,
likes, shares await.
All and each unmistakably
true, unique
not by name (no need)
but by exact skin.
It's specific analytics
building up to a net
that can wash the wide world
and return every hit
for however many peeps
anyone wants to keep
seeing what else is new
this year, month, week,
day, hour and - snap!
to an incoming beep
you
caught
in a moment you thought
was yours: complete.
And that is you, or
was. Irrefutably so. But
it should have stayed
yours. Now it isn't
though
1 comment:
Originally titled "morning paranoia Pt. 2."
It grew into this, and let me state up-front: malignant. Was the grown. Yes, what I've written here IS terrible, and "terrific" ONLY in the old sense of the word. In which terrible and terrific are bang-match synonymous.
The modern sense of both adjectives is far from it. "Terrible" has come to mean "of remarkably poor quality," "terrific" means "VAGUE BLANK UNSPECIFIED WAN/TEPID GREAT!"
Have you met me? My imagination is terrible
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