%%% %%% %%%% %%% %% %%%%% %%%% %%%% %% %%%% %% %% %% %% %%% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% % %% %% %% %%%% %% %% %% %% %%%% %% %%% %%%%% // // //// ////// ////// // \\ \ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ // /// // //////// ////// ////// // \\\\ \\\\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ /// /// // // // // // // [ Mind Warp - Volume #2, Issue #3, File #030 ] [ "Untitled Poem" by Deker ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Untitled Poem [Deker] *Untitled* 9/26/94 I sometimes think of electron paths And particles too small to know Coursing endlessly through silicon substrates Messeners delivering their word At the speed of light I sometimes think Of data streams Carrying vast amounts of information Ceaselessly flowing through the vast networks That criscross our ever shrinking world I sometimes think Of numbers too large to comprehend And quantities no human can know Quantities, that fly From machine to machine Their own cryptic language I sometimes think Of what lies beyond This encoded world Of things that can spring forth From the patterns of ones and zeros And I sometimes dream Of how free it all can be Information passing from one mind to another Only seconds away Yet across the globe And I sometimes see How boundaries drop How race and gender And everything else that seperates One mind from another Loose meaning in this digital dream And once again I dream Of this freedom Of this place where You are judged only by what you say And not who you are And I sometimes i think I see The paradigm about to shift And open this world to everybody Who would come I invite all to come here The assholes The bigots The politically correct The leftist radicals All those who will come For this is a place of freedom Information makes it free Lack of boundaries makes it free Diversity makes it free But the most liberating thing of all Is the anonimity The facelessness The lack of color The lack of physical being The wealth of oddity The wealth of normality And most of all The wealth of freedom -=[deker]=- ============================================================================== Call Arsonist's Arsenal BBS the Mind Warp WHQ - (301) 208-0847 ==============================================================================