9. Cyborg Thoughts
In the 90s we wrote about cyborgs
as queer meldings, humachines,
never dreaming the brick-sized phones
toted by 80s entrepreneurs in
“Information Management” would
one day anorex down to
pocket-squares,
mega hard drives dense
with photos snapped to save
every instant, and emails — oh,
all the e-mails! — and advertisements,
and dopamine games, and
electronic social spaces, and
spam parties and phishing schemes,
plus digital trillions of invisible dollars,
and evil malware, and also a presidictator’s
disconnected rantings (insane as King
George?) … floating like a trussed fly
in a web of a million million toxic thoughts
labeled “history” and “fact” …
never dreaming we’d be ruled
by this tiny device, tied to it as if
to a beating heart, a working brain, a
glowing illusion of salvation …
