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This Time - Doughboys on the Wire

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It's all repeated And so are we: The Lord G-d brings us out of Egypt. This isn’t the first time we’ve done this, you know.  Once again, we've paired the wires  And sparked awareness.  We were messing around with the radio Trying to make it work better, But the wires connected in unexpected ways. You and I both hid as best as we could While voices came through electricity Not from a planchet gliding along a board But instead through tubes and wires Like troops from Cape Helles. Their forceful electric glow  Threw echoes into this place and Down into the deep, hungry well.  It consumed shadows And swallowed us whole.  We heard the radio-sounds clang  Along the circular walls.  Skipping centrifugally,  They echoed endlessly into the fabled  Multiverse.  Their sound moved down like on rungs of the ladder, And the effects  Stretched from the ...

Trump's Pussy Poem for Presidency

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Consider mankind's enormous shift  When Marconi's wireless radio Successfully transmitted that first message Through time and space. Until then, a line existed. It went from Point a to point B. But then, The line from point A to Point b effectively disappeared: Let point A = 0. Let Point b = 1. Let the line itself become quantum, Because the zeros and ones transpose  And twist into an ampersand That says at once both either and or. The quantum leap Continued further when radio waves Bounced through the air And the sender, message, and receiver Became less theoretical And more fractal. Our collective thoughts converged on the television screens Broadcasting pixelated images from another place. All of humanity's thought Found a form To shape And be shaped.  Question: If we had no constant connection To the continual stream of information, Who would we be? If we cut off electricity, Would we think the...

QWERTY in the Alphabet Soup

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Today, my only accomplishment is this: I flipped the standard QWERTY keyboard Upside down and typed on it: When I typed the word QWERTY From my flipped keyboard, It read "?><MNB" in all caps and "/.,mnb" in lowercase letters. "A secret code," I thought. "Surely I can't be the first to turn over a standard keyboard And type onto it as I ordinarily would.... Surely someone has done this before I did." Surely someone has seen the  X M(ark)s the * V I typed the words' "secret code" and "hidden message" [as an SOS (lxl) of sorts] All upside down. Here is what the search results yielded: On its own, this isn't much, But here's the thing: My discovery qualifies as a new thought,  And as a first, I gain proper entrance to the Explorers Club Born and consumed, In an internet of things. So it must be accommodated Or buried In its own way. ...