it's said that NSA
takes note of drug passages
passes note to DEA
who can't read it to the whole class
because it's not admissible
so DEA constructs an alternate
investigation to find what they already
know is there.
parallel reconstruction
what if
the goal of technology
was to become invisible, to
sink into our everyday lives
chatty toasters just a stepping stone
until they become so smooth and clean
they erase themselves from our perception
with their help we rationalize, pruning causes
until no paths pass through our ubiquitous computers
and we speak of an age of accessible
miracles, now lost, though some still believe
we are watched from the Cloud