Showing posts with label jukebox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jukebox. Show all posts

Friday, March 17, 2017

Pandora's Jukebox


Unlimited Skips,
offered Pandora’s jukebox,
my father would cringe at the threat
to his precious vinyl.

Alas, the Narrative has changed.
All is story without plot, idle fancies
and frankly, too many flat Stanley’s.

The fear of the Singularity
exceeds all ego. We are working on it.
It was being built with zeros and ones,
We made it already, collectively, our
demise of reality. 

Speculate non-fictive for a moment, 
we could and did, rewrite beginnings and endings, 
bringing us to this very event horizon, 
which dips down in sheer data weight
and plunges into a black hole 
by basic filtering. 
Not a platter disc, or with grooves going down
into a white dwarf rabbits den, 

Then again-Just play with it Sam.
Electric hat tricks, inside sleeves, 
static sings and scratches ears, 
signaling deftness, 

a rough hand and some callous-
manipulation of ideas.
As though alternate forms for information
without any human connection should not short 
out, being illegible. This also computes null
as Equality. Yes and No.

As with All things being equal,
the volume grew, 
we all screamed, hollowing out
room and grew all consuming, 
devouring these data shells up-time

until all transfers
are made complete
in clouds.

How high Unlimited Skips registers 
and subscribes me to this ad-free
subtractive totality, 
breaking records in cycles. 



Painting by Halfdan Egedius, 1896 in [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

An Other Song on the Jukebox Baby


Today seems like a good day to burn a bridge or two.

The sky resembles a backlit canopy with holes punched in it.

In California with my toes in the sand, head in the clouds but my gravity centered,

‘Cause I’m sick of not living to stay alive.

And I’m just a student of the game they taught me-

Maybe I’m a different breed. Maybe I’m not listening.

Breathe out so I can breathe you in…

We will burn inside the fire of a thousand suns!

…but everything looks perfect from far away, Come down now,” but we’ll stay.

And what about your soul? Is it cold? Is it straight from the mold and ready to be sold?

Just a drop of water in an endless sea...

It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right. I hope you had the time of your life.


Lyric song/artist credits by line:
1. Beautiful Disaster/311
2. Wish you were Here/Incubus
3. The Neighborhood/Sweater Weather
4. All I Want/Offspring
5. When they come for me/Linkin Park
6. AWOLNation/ Sail
7. Foo Fighters/Everlong
8. Requiem/Linkin Park
9. Great Heights/Postal Service
10. Jack Johnson/Gone
11. Kansas/Dust in the Wind
12. Time of your life/Green Day



Image By Highsmith, Carol M. (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011630479/) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, described as Juke box museum in Texas.

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