Murder Most Foul

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Yes, but kneeling is not required ...

Here follows an idealistic poem, but the kernel of truth in it is that the balance (dynamic as you say) will have to be arm in arm, not obeisance or worship:



"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"
by Richard Brautigan


I'd like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.


I like to think

(right now, please!)

of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.


I like to think

(it has to be!)

of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.