The New Dawn

Tail-in-your-mouth Series #1

Up-down, left-right, back to the home screen, a fidget spinner would help you think, I do not think so, the titillating events that keep happening or is it my imagination, I know it is more doomed than that, but that is not how it is presented, it is always dished with a dash and a speck and a drop and then hundreds of exclamations in the comments, very appetizing — believe me, even when you are on the strictest diet, I wonder if there is a support group for curbing this up-down, left-right syndrome, vipassana you say, well that is for more noble souls than me — I am the sinner kind, who loves to be in the darkness — not my words, please mark, this is the verdict that I have received, yes, baba, yes, from multiple people, I look away, turn the phone face down, but then there is that one ting, that makes my heart itch, and my neck take a ninety degree turn, I still stop my hands from going anywhere near the weapon, one sec pass, two more secs pass, and then what the heck, I pick it up and click on the green dot, my face glows like it has found a new candy in the store that has so many that you feel nauseous and yet you keep going back, with an appetite which does not even know if it is sick from being full or from being empty — it is that feeling in your pit and yet you ignore, the latest candy arrived yesterday, machine has finally taken over, the judgements are being questioned, we accused of being machines, we cry, stomp, shake fist in the air, look we are humans, no machines, but the machines have announced and pronounced that we are machines, now there are new judges, evaluating, judges who believe machines are right, we are just mere tools, they are more human than human has ever been, so we cheer loudly, jubilant to have finally found our path ahead, to create a new order, a new world, now no more vipassana will be needed, I will just be an extension of the face down phone, I will receive the beeps directly, the green dot will appear somewhere on my forehead, the comments are on my lips, oh, wonderful, now I do not have to live a separate life from my lover, we are one now, forever, and this forever is actually forever my friends, machines we are, no legacy is needed, just obey, do what they tell you to do, be what they want you to be, the golden path looks so emblazoned with the names of our successors, no predecessors no, only look ahead, this is the golden sun rising and lifting us all up from the dead, we have been dead for so long and finally a whole generation of meditation has yielded this beautiful world that we are waking up to just now, open your eyes.