developing confidence

walking through minefield full of

technological mirrors

TOP TEN COMPUTATIONAL DYSFUNCTIONS

#1: filter bubble fog/babbles back confirmation/echoes eternal
#2: all-caps agreement!/differing observations/define ignorance!
#3: an abundance of/”facts” to feed our encouraged/worship of science
#4: we believe our “facts”/are concrete, established, &/thus infallible
#5: right to be forgot/right to desire less, right to/escape the bubble
#6: domesticated/pens with digital barbs poke me/back inside each day
#7: beyond the fences/elder oaks laugh breezily/waving their thick arms
#8: crows babble about/real freedom, picking flesh from/state asphalt roadkill
#9: state-sponsored highways/digital & real, commerce/trumps information
#10: I descend deeper/into the darkness, hiding/from the roar of more

December V

If you think your boxcutter blade might be dull, you should change it because it is. Mind is the same: if you think things are feeling dull, sit down and read for 20 minutes - a one thing that takes 20 minutes, not a bunch of little electronic shits that isn't really reading so much as robot scanning. A dull mind does not cut through long days that easily.

[then I got bored and wrote a sonnet in 14 minutes inside the facebooks of boredom dumb shit]

waning moon hovers over the end of lost year
boring further dullness into my life's routine,
I gave up self-destructing, gave up drinking beer,
sometimes gave up dreaming in this world rinsed too clean.
my natural born grime shows through my scars, my skin
scuffed, marked with homemade ink stains, bright brain going dark
because all the shinefaces buzz by, born to win.
marked by birth to live lemmy lyrics on a lark;
one step astray, ten years hard work to straighten out,
running what I brung with my supersport ass soul,
but no matter the holeshots, still sit idle, shout
at random passersby, wondering how this whole
facade got built with insanity and magic;
so ends this sonnet written melodramatic.

and then I was gonna complain about how full of shit everybody is, not really just online but in the town I live in, which seems content to pretend to be this little vibrant community without actually building anything artistic or unique about itself, as well as the small city/college I live near and work around, which also seems pretty content to continue to pretend it's some sort of great savior of thinking minds when in actuality it's a country club for the liberal-minded. but you know what? fuck it. 2013 will have me thick up in it, and you motherfuckers can either get down or get ground.