Listening to the microchips whispering bytes of computer code,
Sharing their digital analysis of this world.
Feeling the computer thinking about you,
As you sleep and dream of Facebook feeds, bitcoin and Tik Tok videos.
Watching the drones flying around the neighborhood
With their surveillance cameras turned on,
Uploading infrared video and still images
For the algarithms in the data center cloud.
While I read my e-mails,
The computer orders TV dinners.
The coffeemaker turns itself on.
The phone calls work and downloads my instructions.
Listening to the microchips exchanging information,
Running programs and applications,
Talking to each other in their software languages,
Calculating their calculations.
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Author Notes
I wanted a more mechanical feel to the language for this, to illustrate the digital framework of the computer world we live in now. This is a poem of the sinister, somewhat mysterious , not altogether transparent goings on in this computer world, under the surface, and I'm trying to make people think of what it is that we are really creating with all this technology. And how the techno world is controlling us and manipulating us, often without our even knowing it. I hope to make people think of what it is that those microchips are really doing, while we are sleeping...estory
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