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Digital Buddha - Binary Heroes

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                  Information wars waged on Channel Zero
                     Supernatural communication junkies
                            & dweebling fax machines
                           Making digital long-distance
                                           Love

                          Cellular phones crackle with
                                  Transceiver life
                            And teleport audio into…
                                      wherever

                       Web slingers crawl cyberspace
                              At quicksilver speeds
                                           As
                             Samurai hackers duel
                                In gigabyte worlds
                   With billions of ones and zeroes at their
                                      Fingertips
                   Wizardry and pyrotechnics run amok
                              Across fiber-optic plains

                                     In an instant
                          My enlightenment is hacked
Just a little fun with some of my more favorite words. I really enjoy combining words that sound interesting juxtaposed. For example: machine gun etiquette and geometric javelins. Stuff like that. What I thought was pretty neat was how the words I had in mind translated well to the digital world of technology. We are going places, folks. Very enthralling and somehow slightly unnerving. In another bit of coincidence, Matrix: Revolutions is on the television right now. Talk about unnerving.

If The Matrix is your bag, I HIGHLY suggest looking into Pete Townshend's original concept for The Who's "Lifehouse" project. Pete envisioned a world where music and art were banned. The only way you could get those things was to live in a cocoon where machines fed you your art. Everybodies physical characteristics are assigned a numerical value. Eventually, a chosen one takes on the designers of the system with his music and creates a digital avalanche. Kinda neat, huh?
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Yume-Megami's avatar
Quite an odd poem to see...but a good one at that.
I especially like the phrase "Samurai hackers duel / In gigabyte worlds". Yea, call me a computer freak obsessed with Japan ^^;
For some reason it reminds me of data. All seperated it makes no sense whatever, and makes you seem kind of insane. But when you put it together like this is just fits together perfectly.