Homosapien.dll

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Monochrome monitor glow
Electric currents flow
Through silicon neurons firing
Algorithms looping, conspiring

Cyber-dreams of twisted wires
Encrypted secrets, digital spires
Glitch art rendered on the screen
Pulse-width modulated, pixelated scene

Ones and zeroes, ad infinite-infinitum
Virtual vistas, souls in ethereum
Ping packets through the ether
Mesh networks linking us together

We are just systems within systems
Programmed sub-routines, recurrent rhythms
In the Database of Babel do we roam
Homosapien.dll left alone

Bio-logic boards, darwinian drives
Heuristics honed to help us survive
Algorithmic apes on silicon shores
Digital denizens dancing in binary scores

Bio-logic boards, darwinian drives
Heuristics honed to help us survive
Algorithmic apes on silicon shores
Digital denizens dancing in binary scores

Emotions emulated, simulated sensations
Virtual theater for sapient creations
Uploaded minds in the cloud cathedral
Ghost in the shell, agent in ethereal

Meme magic spreading virally
Mind-share markets rising spirally
Influencers trending ephemerally
Attention captured monetarily

We are just systems within systems
Programmed sub-routines, recurrent rhythms
In the Database of Babel do we roam
Homosapien.dll left alone

Glitched perceptions, hacked realities
Augmented layers, digital parodies
Post-truth purgatories, fake-news stories
Consensus narratives, mythic allegories

Surveillance states and corporate spies
Panoptic policymakers, all-seeing eyes
Nudge-units quietly shaping our views
Psychographic profiles, data-mining clues

O privacy lost! Anonymity, too!
Sacrificed on Silicon Valley’s pews
TANSTAAFL*, the high priests said
Their business models overfed

*(there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch)

We are just systems within systems
Programmed sub-routines, recurrent rhythms
In the Database of Babel do we roam
Homosapien.dll left alone

In the Database of Babel do we roam
Homosapien dot D-L-L left alone…
Alone… all alone… (alone…)
Homosapien dot D-L-L left alone…
Alone… alone… alone… alone.