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Fri Dec-21-07 06:08 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Break, 12/21/07 |
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"Three Desk Objects"
What suns had to rise and set what eyes had to blink out what hands and fingers had to let go of their heat
before you appeared on my desk black light portable and radiant
and you, my electric typewriter with your cord and hungry plug drinking a sinister transfusion from the other side of the wall
what histories of slaughter have left these scars on your keys
What multiple deaths have set loose this clock the small wheels that grind their teeth under the metal scalp
My cool machines resting there so familiar so hard and perfect
I am afraid to touch you I think you will cry out in pain
I think you will be warm, like skin.
—Margaret Atwood
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Fri Dec-21-07 06:11 PM
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Fri Dec-21-07 06:17 PM
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Fri Dec-21-07 09:54 PM
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4. Hey, BlueIris, Did You See This? |
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Sat Dec-22-07 01:14 AM
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5. I did see that—it's awesome! |
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Sat Dec-22-07 01:22 AM
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7. Wow! That's a wonderful meditation on technology |
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and the history that lead up to it. :)
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Sat Dec-22-07 01:28 AM
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8. This is one of those poems that "stuck" with me for years because |
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despite its apparent simplicity—well, I've never seen another one like it. I doubt many in the modern age meditate on how odd our relationship to technology is anymore.
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