What it is

June 2010: In a desperate attempt to stave off senility, the monkey began writing a poem a day. By summer's end he'd begun to run out of versified political rants and philosophical bloviations. Then he hit on the improbable idea of writing micro fiction in the form of Elizabethan sonnets. Eureka. The birth of the "Sonnets From Other Lives" series. Two hundred plus lives later, he's still at it.

Friday, August 20, 2010

8/20
note
the inverse relationship
between
contemplation & connectivity--

how the noise
of digital toys
crowds out a space
once used for creativity

new
age brains
once trained
to survive wild places--

now
we are asea in the assembly line
mentality of an industrial
economy

now
we rage @ the 10 second download
wait for restimulation

now
we circle like yaks
back to back
facing outward
thumbs a-twitter
bewildered by the animal within
our skin

next
the organism adapts:
a neuro-electo ADD
extinguishes long-term memory

&
Judge's Idiocracy
becomes a documentary--
watch it live:
as homo (slightly less) sapien 2.0
is hurled
into a Brave New World

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