Everyday is Sunday, now.
Every day is Sunday, now is a pinhole camera project recording shelter-in-place, social environments. The camera’s wide-angle “lens” and long exposures obfuscate moving objects and translate the sedentary as a once and future dystopia. The accompanying narrations are the written word equivalents to the pinhole photographs.
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commute 2-week stubble jammies slippers zoom garage cubicle the drapes do not match the carpet the roots do. Gloves masques and hand sanitizer coughing sneezing sideways glances do they know each other? Leashed scrunched hunched backs mourning constitutionals excuses to leave the house garbage recycling I need to check the mail. Look both ways muscle memory and look again empty streets full of cars. Push notifications FEDEX U P S pavlovian responses real first world connections six to eight weeks to arrive. Hello neighbor social distance social distortion social media the new american past time howling with strangers a shaved head whisking coffee flashing your other. Faded tape lines satirical amusement park ques curbside pickup only. N95 obfuscated smiles hot exhale steamy glasses polyethylene barriers did I just pull my mask down to hear you better? Every day is Sunday now routines forgotten vacation schedules two day sum day the next. |
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Routinism vol. 2
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Hear to Their Slouched, ear bud posture, And Backpack companions. Tibetan vibrations. Blue screens, white noise. Pavlovian conditioning. Vacant. Swipe. |
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Routinism vol. 1
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analog coding rinse lather if live then repeat existential implications finding meaning in presence comfort in minutiae conversations connections moments |
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extrapolate
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one/100 two a plastic optic event horizon collects connects condenses bifocal extrapolations of time and space |
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CMY and K
Laminating,
Lamenting? Digital experimentations. Stratum explore, blend, And twist. Partially seen, unseen? Subjugating analog equivalencies, To a serendipitous end. |
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incredulous
coming full circle, as it were no tongue-in-cheek, no highly-stylized pleasantries, LEDs, no penis head dick mistrustful dubious unconvinced raw turn your head and cough self-examinations |
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Suggested
Deep learning frameworks.
Rampant consumerism,
and eat it too.
Needn't search,
Cookies, history, photo library
Know me best.
Poetic bus stops,
Dogs and cats ...
atrophic eating habits
enjoyed with one click.
Note: I had been exploring the written word quietly for a few months when a friend and colleague introduced me to the movie Patterson outside of all things computer (yes we were having a old-timey face to face conversation). I had forgotten about the movie until it "magically" appeared in the suggested column of my Amazon list. I couldn't just let her know it was there I had to write this poem. It just seemed fitting.
Rampant consumerism,
and eat it too.
Needn't search,
Cookies, history, photo library
Know me best.
Poetic bus stops,
Dogs and cats ...
atrophic eating habits
enjoyed with one click.
Note: I had been exploring the written word quietly for a few months when a friend and colleague introduced me to the movie Patterson outside of all things computer (yes we were having a old-timey face to face conversation). I had forgotten about the movie until it "magically" appeared in the suggested column of my Amazon list. I couldn't just let her know it was there I had to write this poem. It just seemed fitting.