Cybernoia Cafe Poem by Steve Downes

Cybernoia Cafe



Sleeping eyes open to sobriety from engrossed lethargy
A medicated shroud of self-indulgence lifted momentarily
Voices chatter back
But not forth
Each earbox buzzing with ethertalk
One sided conversations blended into a muddle of nonsensical gesticulations
While rapid thumbs tap out nanospeak in a series of electronic grunts
The caveman has found microfire
Total immersion – 2D/3D – sub-reality
The second Prometheus flame engulfing all fleshly fuel and sanity
Until only 1’s and 2’s remain
Tongues d-evolved to ‘positive’ and ‘negativity’
No more maybes or what ifs in the cold circuitry
Language
Re-branded – renewed – re-booted
Listen around to the solitary mouths pounding out
Numbers for words formed to abbreviate
Depreciate
Relate and
Relegate
What is excess is irrelevance
LOL
Laugh out loud – no one’s heeding at any rate
All eyes are pricked
All ears are peeled for infor-gossip
Infor-knowledge
Infor-nation
No human to human communication in a room of mind
Hooked up
Logged on
Clued in but checked out
Beep goes the screen – blank goes the sound of modernation
Game Over … Man!
Time for termination

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