GENETIC DRIFT

October 2007

So this is kind of ridiculous, as I’m experimenting with some very odd streams of consciousness attempting to be non-linear. Also it is inspired by a project I’m doing for CS. Falls under the heading of "poems I am willing to attribute to an AI in some hypothetical future work."

Note/premise: When confronted with a footnote, the reader has a choice to make, which changes in a small way the course of the poem.

Now providing vulnerability!
Now offering sense of loss for seventeen cents
A day.* Senseless broadband piping hot
Pine fresh scent. Transmission gibberish sent
From situations unknown. Out of left field.
Out of unified field theory.** Sensation
Of disjoint field uncovered by warranty.***
All fields required: wheat, oat, sorghum. Warrants
Outstanding: misappropriation of Tolstoy, War and
Peace. Now features pullout section, glossy photos,
Sudoku. Now sensible, now sensational, dependent
Upon phase of moon and local laws. Now
Providing best effort at unreliability. BETA.
-BETA

*-Now offering lossless medium. Trivial expression
Of psychic potential: new moons of Saturn impression
Of rings and potential of lost love. Lunar regression
Indicates loss of loss, tidy sum, low tide. Silence /

**-Out of uniform. Out of gas. Pursuing †
American Dream open country rabbit warren.
Armed robbery and dreamt of sky.

***-Management not responsible for chunky
Salsa effect. No response. Corporate sponsorship
On last legs / Got up and walked away.

†-Out of sense of duty.