All Watched Over.

[serafaery]

I'd like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.

I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.



All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace


Reprinted in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine
Disaster, copyright 1968 by Richard Brautigan.

Comments

[chavtasticjinx.livejournal.com]

Until just now, i didn't connect MOLG (the band) with Brautigan... But I have had Hawkline Monster on my To Read pile for a while...

[serafaery.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of Brautigan! I suck! I just pulled this from Preston's tumblr because he was going off on how underrated MOLG are and posted the poem for reference which I think is so beautiful and from the 60s omg awesome. <3 What is Hawkline Monster? Want! :)

[celestialvoid.livejournal.com]

I discovered Richard Brautigan back in high school. The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster was in my grandfather's bookshelf and I fell in love with it. He's one of my favorite poets.

I hope you don't mind me commenting (& adding you!), I found you via Ta & Melyssa. :)