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Outdated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