Vampire Calculus
Begin program "Vampire Calculus"
{I shall bite your daughters into something else.
I shall bite your sons into something else again...
I am omitted from your vision. I remain
a thought behind the wind,
a voice inside the rain:
whispering to your young folk
as they choose to upgrade
until all human weakness falls away
like the dry beech leaves faced with
a sudden sexy springtime.
I read their warm pink mechanisms
I write them out again
in grey, not of death or age,
but of mathematics: a symbol
for every part of the soul
and the whole wrapped up in the big square brackets
which say: this far, this far is human,
but no further...
at least until they say three times
they're ready to transcend.
I have seen the future and it's all transhuman fucking,
every millisecond
every imaginable way,
(
)
businesses
that are also games,
and people
who are also art
but behind it all the simplest, most carnivorous algorithm:
One less of them;
One more of us;
Repeat, while not all upgraded.
}
End program "Vampire Calculus"
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2017-09-01
2015-05-23
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A small, quirky, offering, this time...
How people really think about the World, and their life in it, is one of the great unacknowledged elephants of our time. We think we're these cool, calm, rational beings and... ...well basically "rubbish!" We're more than a little ape, and apes are quite monkey, and monkeys are quite reptile.
This barely touches on that, but there may be some self-deceit going on...
()
These events become parenthetical,
sliding past your real life (moments in doorways,
rain-beleaguered; nights in anonymous hotels)
unexamined. You can prove these things don't happen.
The normal rules preclude kissing young ladies
(behind the curl of hair around her ear) naturally
you have no habit of checking
it isn't going on.
How people really think about the World, and their life in it, is one of the great unacknowledged elephants of our time. We think we're these cool, calm, rational beings and... ...well basically "rubbish!" We're more than a little ape, and apes are quite monkey, and monkeys are quite reptile.
This barely touches on that, but there may be some self-deceit going on...
()
These events become parenthetical,
sliding past your real life (moments in doorways,
rain-beleaguered; nights in anonymous hotels)
unexamined. You can prove these things don't happen.
The normal rules preclude kissing young ladies
(behind the curl of hair around her ear) naturally
you have no habit of checking
it isn't going on.
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