July 1, 2017, 4:55 a.m.

roadside picnic

wonder systems

(and we as ants)

"it just works!"
this is to say
all that it does, is work

and we are caught in its
working all

of tec
tnol ogy
as a cargo cult, feverish repetition
of the material combinations that
worked so well for Watt and Tesla
in hopes that the same social
motion will happen again, the same

disruptive boardflip, pieces everywhere, this
subtle and not so subtle rearranging 
while putting them back on the board:

"I think this was here, right?"

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