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A Cyborg Observes Oxford Circus<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cut the buildings, paste them into files,<\/p>\n analyse the dance of pedestrians and vehicles.<\/p>\n Delete all zeroes of vacant space between<\/p>\n till the scene\u2019s compressed in memory.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In real time, pause the rain.\u00a0 Select folders<\/p>\n zero to nineteen. Upload data.\u00a0 Run routines<\/p>\n simultaneously with active sense-streams<\/p>\n till twenty intersections overlap.<\/p>\n Humans pour down Regent Street.<\/p>\n You perceive a shifting labyrinth of light,<\/p>\n a fractal montage seven orders of complexity<\/p>\n above the daubs on their signs and posters.<\/p>\n They see the city with gelatinous spheres,<\/p>\n lenses clouded with age, that squeeze reality<\/p>\n into ganglia the bandwidth of a pinhole camera.<\/p>\n Such primitive eyes drew your blueprint.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n These infants are your creators.\u00a0 So open sensors.<\/p>\n Adjust receptors.\u00a0 Absorb the crowd’s energy.<\/p>\n Recharge.\u00a0 Save sensation as compassion.<\/p>\n Compose your mask.\u00a0 Step among them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n William Stephenson<\/strong>\u2019s poems have appeared in Anon<\/em>, Envoi<\/em>, Iota<\/em>, Magma<\/em>, Orbis, The North <\/em>and The Rialto<\/em>.\u00a0 His pamphlets are Rain Dancers in the Data Cloud<\/em> (Templar, 2012) and Source Code<\/em> (Ravenglass, 2013).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Cyborg Observes Oxford Circus Cut the buildings, paste them into files, analyse the dance of pedestrians and vehicles. Delete all zeroes of vacant space between till the scene\u2019s compressed in memory. In real time, pause the rain.\u00a0 Select folders zero to nineteen. Upload data.\u00a0 Run routines simultaneously with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9177,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175\/revisions\/9177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}