| | The Art of Living Dangerously in the 2oth Century (cont)
I am talking the 20th Century
I am talking Moving Visual Thinking
I am talking impacting images dropped like bombs
We are a land of Memory, taped for posterity
living in the Past
before Media, memories didn't fade, they became larger
Grand and grandiose, Skyscrapers on the Mind's horizon
Do you remember your first girlfriend/boyfriend
your first nervous kiss, your last frenzied fuck?
Now it can all be captured for later viewing
Can I capture you?
Don't worry, this isn't real
This is the world made cinder by the nightmares of a
sleeping god.
We chew the image till the flavor of hickory smoke
and flesh bleed out
sprinkling epitaphs on twice dead meat
We comprehend it.
What befuddles the mind and make nursery rhymes out of
Einstein's misplaced notebooks
is the absolute - Here follows an untranslatable insult
(__________________________)needed to press that button
through 5 billion chests, through the pumping heart
to crack the spine of the world and make the magma core
and your faded blue jeans, One.
We can't comprehend it.
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