bedworthy kingdom

[August Highland]

bedworthy kingdom


the main subject of this poem
is intelligence in art
or executive luncheons of machinic
ingenuity

i can't decide

do i focus on the new
"without genre"
ingenuities
and the works
accepted on the basis
of hacking and sharing files
and open source
and foster concepts
of transparency

OR

(feeling a bit like
a product at the moment)
do i opt for
cumguzzling
daily poetry blogs

OR

relaxing
first-person
perspectives
guaranteed to
misinform


OR

(as shakespeare points out)
the cinematic kinetic
communication means
between two worlds
as reflected in connections
between poets
on disability
(as opposed to intertwining
and entanglement)



what occurs to me now
is that shakespeare was a
map of virtual locations
incorporating
networked communication
and electronic civil
disobedience

he never used a slogan
like "please visit my audioblog"

he only reported the economic
benefits of the truth

shakespeare also liked shopping online
popup advertisements
and shopping cart ordering
(this is ubiquitous throughout
all his work)

meanwhile
he examined the possibilities
and perils
of a future dominated by
internet-based boys
plucking petals from online slams
in a nuclear mushroom cloud

not to mention
embedded electronic ID
tags in the cervixes
of child porn stars

i think i've made my point



august highland
1:04 am
01-16-03




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