I think a dissertation
could be written
about the invasive nature
of all modern technology.
Television, cellphones, computers,
have all been monopolized
and turned into selling machines.
The amount of subscriptions
and advertisements
have created a sort of DeLillo-
hellscape of consumerism.
I went to a Christmas wonderland
with my family last week,
and a horde of gibbering cow-people
tried to trample us into mush.
Reaching for chicken-nugget ornaments
that reminded them of value-menu items.
An old lady threw an elbow at my wife
and I was almost run down by
a nightmare on an amigo.
We stood stranded in an aisle
as mouth-breathing cattle
mooed by us in throngs of dizzying
chaos.
The irony of the holiest of days
was lost on these bovine caricatures,
as they tried to stamp and grind
mortal souls beneath their cloven feet.
Technology feels like that most of the time.
Celebrity endorsements for strange products,
comments on Reddit and posts on Instagram
that seem natural but are meant to pervert
the mind while driving us toward the bolt gun.
All of it is too harrowing,
so on days like today,
where I’ve been bought and sold.
I think we should get rid of all of it,
and hold hands as we enter into
a dim future of ignorance and
post-tech obsolescence.
