Commentary and Philosophy Poetry posted September 11, 2023 Chapters:  ...28 29 -30- 


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After you cut the cord

A chapter in the book Artificial Intelligence

Unplugged part II

by estory

I turn off the computer. 
When I turn off the computer
There is a feeling of great relief,
Freedom. My head starts to clear
From the flashing, the buzzing,
Frames within frames within frames
Inside the chrome book
Connected to the web
Through its coaxial cables.
 
Free at last from the coaxial cables,
All the myriads of websites and chat rooms,
I walk outside and listen
As birds and bees ring in the air
Carrying me back
On feather and gossamar wings
Across the sparkling sky
Over those ancient mountains,
Witnesses to our first fires,
The first wheel. 
 
Simple people seem to be sitting
Around that fire, reciting poems and stories
Handed down by ear.
Their faces flicker in the living firelight,
And I watch their body language
As the stories unfold
And take them on journeys
Of the heart and soul,
Their eyes sparkling,
Their hearts beating faster.
Together, they talk about the stories,
They laugh, they cry,
They hold each other in their arms.
 
When I think of computers,
It seems as if we have come very far
From those first wheels,
Those first printing presses.
But it also seems, as I watch those people,
Those ancient people around that fire,
That we haven't come very far at all. 



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Well, at long last, this is the conclusion of Artificial Intelligence. I wanted to end on a note of some hope, some sense of freedom, of cutting the cord and going back to the simplicity and raw emotion, the excitement of the shared experience, in person. I tried to move the style from the mechanical to a more free form rhythm, and take the images from boxes and lines and dots to more sketched out figures and faces sitting together around that fire, listening to sounds of nature around them. I am glad to be done with this collection, it took a long time to post, and I am ready for new things. Stay tuned for a final short story to be added to the collection I have been posting during the year, it will be called The Conductor. As always, I await your comments...estory
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