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Issue 41/42 : July - December, 2008 : Volume 11 No 1/2



Ptr Kozlowski

Digital Rev

I feel like I'm being digitized. Even as we speak.
I can't get over the feeling that I'm being pixillated.
And it's not what I'd call sweet.
I know that I'm a lucky guy. Whoop-ee.
I can Google any thing I want. Yipp-ee.
Or look it up in Wikipedia. Golly Gee.
Some lonely lady in Bulgaria. Wants to meet me. She's
Sending me her digital. Biography. From across the sea.
She's sure that I will understand. A man like me.
I can find other strangers who think like me. Hee-hee-hee.
They show the same things that I see in dreams. How lucky can I be.
But I can't get over this feeling that I'm being scanned inside.
Even as we speak.
And someone is tracking my whereabouts. With an R.F.I.D.
They must have somehow implanted me. While I was asleep.
And now I'm some kind of dot that blinks. On somebody's screen.
I already know I'm being portion-controlled. And here's what I mean.
And their eyes start to glaze.
It's because a little voice inside of them says.
We're gonna have to take a short break.
These are the stories we're following. We'll be right back after this.
So I know I'm being portion-controlled. And what can I say.
But now it's like I'm shrink wrapped, barcoded and palletized.
Edited for content and formatted to fit the screen.
A screen filled with mortgages, diet plans and erectile pills.
And wealth creation schemes.
They're so sure that I will understand. A man like me.
And it just gets more clear that I'm being monetized.
But they're not doing it for me.
I've got global resources at my fingertips. And they have got me.
All upgraded to the latest version and optimized. Performance tweaked.
I'm ahead of the curve in so many ways. And it gives me the creeps.
I . . .
Feel like I'm being digitized. Even as we speak.
Even as we speak.

Shabdaguchha, an International Bilingual Poetry Journal, edited by Hassanal Abdullah