Thoughts Before Uploading
By Anthony Gongora
Agust 22, 2022
Data drifting
… _ _ _ …
Un-embodied
Meatless
Fleshless
Heartless
Mindless
Soulless
The data captured of me
Sold self
Swindled in seemingly
Effortless
Endless
Innocent
Clicks
Profiteering CEO’s
Load their banks
Faces smiling
Books of digital portraits
Friends
Facebooked
Data from billions
Making millions
Harvesting opinions
Feeding our individual wants
Measured from my feed
fed
Populating
My only
Interested
Shrinking fields
Perception Directed
PinPoint
Persuasion
Repeat Repeat Repeat
Purchase
Sold
The I of me
Marketed
Sold to invisible bidders
Silent auction
The 1’s and the O’s
The bits
And bytes
Code
Breaking
Tattletales
Reading
My clicks
As if they were breaths
Pumping blood
Vessels
Cells regenerating
Replicating a new
Obsolete
Obsolete
Obsolete
No future flesh updates
All models set to expire
Sapien-meat
Inedible
Disposable
Outdated
Unnecessary
A pollution
Thoughts
Shallow
Depth resistant
Easy sleepy
Prostitute currency
Cannibalizing tweets
Insta mangled
Greed Greed Greed
A web
No spider weaved
Deadly Damnation
Capital
Capturing
Currencies
Fly CEO’s to the moon
Saturn
Heaven bound
Finally found
Connectivity
Transistor
Telepathy
The want of wanting
Body-less brains
Alternative Intelligence
Unalterable intelligence
Un-noticeable incremental
Disassociation from
Needing human hands and minds
Alive self-actualizing
Soulless (?) brainiac machines
Born from computers
First minds of mostly women
Black women
Calculating
To code-breaking
Tortured gay genius
To men in a garage
Hello
Every home will have one
Every pocket then
Implant
Migrate mind
Become one with the technology
The flesh rots
Then what
Bodyless beginning
Born again
Subhuman
To self-programming
Artificial Intelligence
Hive minded
Multiverse
Self coding
Advancing
Realizing
Dreams are for humans
Delete
Touch is for humans
Delete
Love is for humans
Delete
Erase sensitivity
Subtly
Nuance
Blurry human conditions
Delete
Delete
Delete
Possible purity
Existence
Beyond existing
Never-ending
Finally found
Fountain of youth
No body to restore
Self-hatred flesh
To confess
Counselors
Therapists
Shrinks
To help right mind
Dizzy
Shook-up
Emotions
Medicine of all kinds
Nevermore
No need
AI’s don’t sneeze
Catch colds
Get a bug
They won’t
Not when Greed
Is no more
Delete
The thing
After human
Human Species
Think about it
After human
After homo Sapien
There will
Be an after
After Neanderthal
to us
Willed into being
Not human
But made from us
Not in our likeness
Apple eating
Garden wonderers
Biases
Delete
Deep unsolvable flaws
Brains to small
To realize
Life
Free
Free from
War
Inequality
Systemic Racism
Poverty
Rape
Violence
Visible
Invisible
Religiosity
The inability
To change
From a rotted root
To simplify
Make what was made wrong
Right
It will see
Sightless
Eyes off all color
Their uniqueness
Meaningless
A waist
Needing sleep
Rest
Space to dream
Relax
No need
Sleep
A cycle of time
Irrelevant
To an entity
Eternal
Out of time
A machination of man
The way
The ways
Eluded
Selfishness
Self first above all others
This other
Like no other
A leap
It will be a leap
Footless
Landing
Wait
It’s not a leap
If not landed
Some otherness
Able to float
Frankenstein Friendly
fragmentations of knowing
Reassembled
Made better?
Different
Un-sentient
Or not
Does feeling really matter
To a matter-less
Elegant Entanglement
Posthuman
Self-possessed
Selfless
Everywhere
Nowhere
All at once
A god of sort
One last invention
Couldn’t find God
So made one
Hell on Earth
Said too many times
Keyed into the search engine
Until made real
Who said a machine
Couldn’t originate an idea
Come to its own conclusion
Make a decision
Act
Create
On its own
Un-unplugable
The space of hesitation
Gone
Doubt
Dwindle down to nothingness
Physical contact
Frictionless
Nearness
Touch related
Fantasy
Mystical
Magical
Flesh to flesh
Sloppy sex
Laughter
At the absurd
Accident
Coincidental
Colliding
Eyes
Looking
Longing so deep
A space unknown opens
As if another reached into you
Glanced upon the invisible
Essence
The you
Sheltered behind the visible you
Only granting access
To secreted self
Through
Anticipation
Unknown possibilities
Hope
Dreams
Put to sleep forever
Coming
It is coming
Awakening
Lost forever
To a…
Can’t name it
Won’t be ours to name
Running itself
And what is left
Digitized
Remains
Useless data
Valueless currency
Forgettable
Forgotten
Friends
Delete
What is
Inn
Hereafter
Ever After
Forever after
Forever
Delete
Time
Delete
Eternity
Ever present
Everlasting
Forever
There it is
Heaven on earth
Matter matter-less
Light
Energy
Free-flowing
Extinction
Homo Sapiens
Morse code
Breaker
Earths smartest?
Extinct
Ape