Saturday, October 22, 2022

The Gaze of the Other in a Surveillance State ~ Saturday, October 22, 2022

Try to flip the screen and show me just what you see

Rio, pave the streets with gold, still rivers run red

Yesterday, I woke up and made a cup of tea

Try to flip the screen to wake me up out of bed

Of course, you can't do the impossible but try

For God's sake to think what it will mean when we can

Lift the seat, the lid is not so heavy to pry

Impossible now but who knows when a new plan

Presents a blueprint, an idea for a patent

Try to flip the screen, just reach in and pull it out

Hand me a spoon, sleep until it falls, discontent

Everyone dreams but God who wakes up with a shout

Silence, the last star burns out, darkness reigns supreme

Cold, the universe contracts, creates a new scheme

Remember Rio, your glasses see with fresh eyes

Each image captured by a photographic lens

Everywhere these eyes offer insight unlike spies

Now to flip the screen, sleep from our eyes we must cleanse

As the universe contracts, all within a quark

No one imagines dark energy sets the spark

Difficult to say but easy to speculate

Speculum mirrors language as sounds oscillate

Hidden within truth, the black box at the bottom

Of the universe, where in God's name might that be

Where the sun don't shine, so far deep under the sea

Manifest in foam, Salut! Here lies God's scrotum

Entertain artists, hobby horses paint surreal

Justifications for science, watch as oils peal

Understanding art, science, technology ... words

Sucker punch knowledge from behind, back of the head

Try to flip the screen, Rio, cameras unlike birds

Work to show the world, multiple views now instead

Hovering above, pigeons lurk in viaducts

As we pass below, sidewalk strewn, does it matter

Try to flip the screen, the information instructs

Yellow to appear as daffodils, yolk, batter

Only imagine Dali, Duchamp, Magritte, play

Until the devil sleeps at dawn, fuck with Old Nick

Send the transmission via live wire, there's no fee

Enter the future, step by step, approach the day

Engage an artist, different vision, that's the trick

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