16 From Within (To Vl.)
From inside your TV;
Surrounded left-right-up-down-AM-PM by its non-stop screen;
From within
The omniscient electricity;
From within its benevolent glistening;
Traveling with a speed of whim inside its omnipresent bubble;
Safely unborn from its omnipotent --
Surrogate-for-everything -- plazma womb;
From inside its hyper cocoon transforming you
Into every shape by tearing it down into sundust
In your customized nuclear reaction;
From within a preying high-order alien with high
Resolution and definition;
From inside the cyber Trojan horse;
Deus ex machina;
Protected by the high-voltage indifferent to whom it strikes
('Do not put a finger in my mouth! I will bite off the whole hand!');
Behind the fire-wall deaf and blind to the signals from without;
Wired to electro-shock;
From inside the unreal --
From within the best movie, the best still, the best montage, the best script,
From inside the best gangster, the best hero, the best pin-up --
You gloat over the blubbering and screaming of the
Cluttered-clattering-down-shattered-shapeless blackout
Of the outside.
You sneer at the fidgeting and flinching of the real,
At its rip-offs.
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