“Technology was this great human thing. Wired magazine and capitalism
and extraction and behaviorism and finance all killed it.”
-Doug Rushkoff, Wired, 11 May 23
So easy it’s become
to whip out our hand-helds
& talk shop friend share
A kind of cyber saran wrap
sealing the butcher’s art for us
to load in our City Market mind carts
Cutting us off from
the killing the culling the lithium
land rush in Utah’s Lisbon Valley
Absorbed as we are in national
shenanigans grand conspiracies
world class puppetry
Who even notices the seats
up for grabs on the school board the
town board the water conservation board
Too boring for our rapt attention
absorbed as we are
in entertainments conflicts distant
wars over the resources to turn
Dick Tracy’s cartoon watch into our pet
slave data bots we call cellphones
