Age of Information – Collab Poem by J Ramos & P Chatelain

by Mr. Phillipe
Posted on May 8, 2012May 27, 2012

Age of Information
By Phillipe Chatelain, Joshua Ramos

The brain versus the Internet.
Both vast, controlling,
Subject to manipulation by the masses.

A labyrinth,
Winding paths and endless loops
Of latent ideas.
Rivers of consciousness into oceans.

Programmed to execute our orders,
Society’s standards. Made to blend in.
Created to justify the means to an end.

Modified by the minds of those
Compelled to spread creativity.
A living, breathing entity
Mirroring our world,
But lacking it’s palpability.

Disgraced by those who benefit from this faulty world,
Bastard sons of politicians taint its remarkable beauty.
Ultimately it fades along with the past connections.

Deep within,
Lies a glimmer of genuine hope for humanity
Concealed by layers of convoluted expressions of self-disgust.

The dark face of society is revealed.
Blank stares of unfamiliarity,
As human nature stirs up slowly from anxiety to violence.

Author: Mr. Phillipe

Phillipe Martin Chatelain / @uptownvoice / Phillipe is the Managing Editor of In Parentheses. He is a poet from New York City with a Masters Degree in Poetry from The New School. He writes as someone in the tradition of the urban troubadour or the flaneur–wandering, taking notes. He believes that poetry of our generation has taken on a much more digital definition. Furthermore, it is important for New Modernist writers like those exhibited in In Parentheses Literary Magazine to assume the forms of media available in order to carry on the history of Sublime Art. His series taking shots alone was self-published in 2012-2015. The self-published collection FACETS (2019) is now available. View all posts by Mr. Phillipe

2 thoughts

Michael says:

May 8, 2012 at 5:45 PM

So would you agree with the notion that the Internet is some sort of a Frankenstein? Apart from yet at the same time dependent on the Brain or Man? Where would you draw the line, as to where the Brain ends and Internet begins necessarily?

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Phillipe says:

May 8, 2012 at 9:18 PM

The internet is just like Frankenstein. We created him and now we’re at awe at how much like us it is. It’s like super-human in a way.

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