Open Letter to President Obama

Imagine a world so networked with silicon clocks and electronics

that a single man could coordinate a galactic government.

If we played nice with a benevolent dictator.

And if one man could do that,

as networked devices run banks and business plans

silicon coordination would shrink the effective need

for family size, and every other freedom

But also smaller and smaller groups throw

bigger and bigger wrenches

in well planned functioning

nonetheless somewhat blind

(as this is life)

creating perpetual states

of emergency

Already on news

were bombarded by grim hues

of planes crashing

and tracers in Iraq

Scuds in Afghanistan

or any grim act

or grizzly murder

or wolf hunt

And that's not even politics

merely coordinatation effects.

For man is a coordinated person

with brain and hand and eye

keeping track of time

Ah! like Silicon!

So combustion of silicon engines

are actually polluting with coordination

the very thing driving the machine

till global freedom starts shrinking

from atmospheres of stress

Global warming all over again

but not from extraction of fossil fuel

but from compaction of silicon tools.

Already Boston got locked down

Airlines are Airinoid

Gitmo another sign of the starry heavens

That freedoms are shrinking in Yuletide

and spring tides and neat lives

and every other kind of time

kept track by element 14, nowadays, sigh.

42 freedoms 14 lives

3 cats and two eyes

spy another catastrophic timeline

lagging behind the winning car

in this game of life.