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Welcome to the rest of your life
by Laura DoomYou know that you're in trouble
when X-stream becomes the norm,
a form of cursory submission
with compiled consent, a service
auto-rendered while you chill, and still
you really don't know what you're missing.
For the record, you've been data raped
no drug-fuelled hit, not bound and taped
just freaked by faceless phish on trips
that nybbled at your finger tips;
apocalypse in catachresis
disinvested, hacked to pieces.
It's gender neutral, culture free
endorsed by governments worldwide
a trove for trade and Treasury;
more viable than genocide
more easily deniable.
The minor laughing in your face
it knows your mind: Your mine, you're mine
and so it shafts you from behind
then extricates without a trace
of purity to vitiate that seamless insecurity. 08/16/2014 Author's Note: Yes, I am frequently confused.
Posted on 08/16/2014
Copyright © 2026 Laura Doom
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 08/17/14 at 02:53 PM As if through a glass, darkly. Adds a whole new frightening reflection and meaning to "The Cloud." |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 08/18/14 at 12:53 AM Love it all but especially that third stanza. Not a world for the timid, imho. |
| Posted by Jim Benz on 08/20/14 at 11:50 PM "your mine, you're mine, and so it shafts you from behind ..." |
| Posted by Paul Lastovica on 08/24/14 at 01:36 AM I fear the day my worst/favorite sci-fi concept is turned real - Ghost Hacking. |
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