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Surveillance Capitalism

Michael Marchese

By Michael Brandon MarchesePublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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Contraptions enrapture

The thoughts in my head

Like the Black Widow Feds

Spin the global-wide web

Making beds

To be lied in

Belying the eyeless appliance’s

All-seeing

Spy-lids

With die kids

And ISIS’

World hunger virus

Deciding divisive devices disguised

As the iris’

Optimal optical scans

Are just scams

And we buy it

Like contraband-widths

We demand

They supply it

Reliant on intel cartel

Data pirates

Bespectacled specters

Of property private

Sectors stealing secrets

And quieting riots

To keep us compliant,

Complacent

And safe and secure

Our freedom-

Information

In their bidding war

With the state’s machinations

Harmonic convergence

To merge us as one

Motherboarderless

Servant

A mirthless,

Subservient

Permanent

Nervousness

Bliss on the verge

Of transcendence

To micro-chips

Cold, calculating,

Brain-drain

Pain-impervious

Hard-wired smiles

Like customer services

As all the while

They got us on file

If someone malfunctions

It’s to the junk pile

Of planned obsolete

Made in China deceit

Soon enough

The new stuff

Is complete

And released

To the public

Consumption

Effete, then deleted

The outdated being’s

Illogical reasoning

No longer needed

Not fiscally viable

When product placements

Make preferences pliable

No more investing in

Such unreliable

Feeling-based flesh-

Eating parasites,

Troglodytes

Nature’s blight,

Human rights

Merely an oversight

To the Lord Profits

Most prescient prophetic

Detective’s objective

A future perspective

On forced-course corrective

Behaviors unfavored

In apes

Less aggressive

And traits more impressive

To more uninventive

And more inattentive

Assembly line minds

From their vines

Disconnected

Preemptively programmed

To heed the directive

Effectively rendering

Life contraceptive

Selectively-breeding

Exceeding perfected

Like fascists on acids’

Exclusive collective

The watchers still watching us

Acting defective

Then tactfully cashing in

On more expensive

Preventative measures

To end such a pensive,

Depressive death-sentence

Condemned to a prison

Super vision’s

Sentience

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