Cyborg and Signals Of Distress
by Paul Corman-Roberts
Cyborg
Real time digitized
Pixel relay display
Mounted on multi-channel
Adjustable visor
Synchronizing integration with
Split partition
Amplified earplugs
Wired to the 2000 minute
Unlimited weekend
Free long distance
Wireless miasmanet access
Ensconced in sleek, purple
Aerodynamic electronic fuel
Injected sweet ass
Magnetic field burning craft
Jacked into the cellular
Radar ether work
Neuralized receptor
Dish love generators
Sing sing sing
The encephalitic chakra
Blast through synaptic
Highway feeding toward
Segmented kilobyte troughs
Sloughs sucking us off
Jacking us off
From the sweet comfort of
Form fitting ergonomic
Pleathervinyl carbon mounting
Coordination unit carrying
Consciousness along
Cardiosilicon artery jags
Minimized lags
Heavy dark bags
Beneath your broadband
Beneath your DSL
Contact lenses
No senses
For the physical world
Collapsing all around you.
Signals Of Distress
S.O.S.
America, open for business
Zero per cent financing
Interest free
NASDAQ
Pushing progress forward
Go about your business
Or else they’ve already won
America Rising
Off our knees
911
United we stand
Americans as one
Give a little bit
Give a damn, a little bit
911 on 911
We will go on
We have always gone on
Where is Afghanistan?
Where is Palestine?
Isn’t Iraq where they held our hostages?
Give a damn, a little bit
We’ll have to make sacrifices
Freedom comes at a high price
Free speech has its limits
Civil rights have their limits
All the president’s men say so
Freedom comes expensive
So give a little bit
Or else they’ve already won
Go about your business
Interest free
Not as expensive as freedom
We all need to make some sacrifices
We all need to maintain our lifestyles
We’re open for business
Or else they’ve already won
S.O.S.
911
Paul Corman-Roberts is an Oakland poet who coordinates the Bitchez Brew Reading Series in San Francisco. He is an editor at Red Fez and Full Of Crow, and was the poetry editor for Cherry Bleeds before it went on “indefinite hiatus”. You can track him down through his website at www.paulcormanroberts.com.
