Getting the Machine Drunk
by Josef Krebs


Getting the machine drunk
Again
I propose it takes up poetry
In nonrational or even irrational irradiance
That might amount to a subconscious line of thinking code
That could either liberate or enslave
The already-mostly-ruled-by-timetable-of-robots barely humans
In corrupting corporations
Whose logic defines and denies life
Until we come to our
Unsenses
And nonsenses

The fissures that arrive or undertow
The calamity that shakes our bones
Even as we are undefeated
Calamitous in that we disregard our humanity for ideals
Not even ideas just rigid beliefs that defy logic
Our consequences
That will rapidly evaporate once we consider the circumstances
That led us to this
Over childhoods
And impatience to be men not human
The stamina of inconsequence not withstanding
The importance of being important
The matter of mattering
In one life
Among many
That you may dream
May yet dream
In a universe of thought
Yet to be dreamed
Or. . . .


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