At Horizon

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Smashed our face against horizon.
Shards of shattered teeth
slice into our eyes.

A funhouse mirror.
Keeps us staring the wrong direction.
Keeps our sights locked on illusions.
The illusion.
That now we have to live in.

Oh dear god no,
this is it.
We have landed.
This is it.
And it’s nothing like was promised.
We ended up too far.

The edge of a cliff
of a collective dream
sold over and over again
by the architects, the engineers
to keep mother machine humming.

The boxes have been ticked.
They’ve ran off with all we’ve given them.
Fists full of bags full of hopes and dreams.

The golden city.
Premonitions from childhood books.
The year 2000.
And it's all just sand in hands.

Gold dust blowing down the abyss.
Gold dust blowing into our eyes.
The edge.
The end.
Can we run back?
Can we turn back?

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The future, a vision of beautiful technologies, looked so promising in the glossy color pictures of children’s books—the promise that further technologies would assuage the stresses and crises generated and compounded by previous technologies. We have and continue to assure ourselves that governments and industry will solve the catastrophes upon us. We believe they will choose to value people and nature over short-sighted, short-term, disgusting, personal interests. We are finally here, at the mouth of the end. Nature is about to break the narrative that “everything will be fine. Leave it up to those in charge. The technologies to correct the path are soon to arrive” doesn’t feel as reassuring as it once may have.

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from Demo, released May 21, 2020

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