| Is
this hardware or software?
The next generation.
The new improved
. . .
Will it ever end?
"It's just
beginning.
The developers
have called this project
the first self-generating
software . . .
the first software
which modifies and creates
its own hardware."
Beginning with
bones.
Sticks, hide, stones.
Bear grease and
bat droppings.
Tiny flint teeth
fixed on wood-blade
scythes for wild
seed harvests.
Today, bear meat
still on my plate.
Grains of millet,
peppers, sea salt.
"The sound
of ocean waves, digitalized.
Dreams, monitored
on-screen.
The newest version
will surpass all known standards
of performance
in a number of critical areas."
In the shadows,
clack
old teeth, tired
bones,
longing for the
drugs of nature,
a death of choice.
We go forward, holding
false hands, smiling
in pixels.
Earth-tide, rising,
falling.
Desert sands spreading,
millet no more.
Forests falling,
bear no more.
Bones crumbling,
flint falling out of use.
It's sand now,
silicon everywhere:
"the carbon
version is seen
to become soon
obsolete."
© Nowick Gray
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