Off Line Brains
Off Line Brains
Connected to the system
Just like the movies
Answers to everything
Tip of your tongue
Hard to come by
An honest day's knowledge
Mined from the rocks
Gliding fingers tapping glass
Hard to come by
Making judgments too late
Your searches preset
Like a radio dial
Nothing new on the horizon
You seen it all before
Following your footsteps
Places you have been
How can you learn
If there is anything new
Seems like you know
Until the batteries die
Powered off the reboot comes
Everything on line
And nothing in your head
Suppose to be safe
Always check the servers
Brains in your pocket
Like grains of sand
Which lasts longer
Time always tells
Looking into the screen
Always asking others
Reading all the answers
From the massive cheat sheet
Everything bet on
Live by the totals
Buy only what others vote
Watch the sales results
Pick only winners
They are easy to see
Some light the way
It's all done by consensus
The ones and the zeros
Add up the totals
Tell the machine what to do
You’re the boss and the brains
Until the batteries die
About this poem
You’re the boss and the brains Until the batteries die
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Written on 2012
Submitted by rzwilling on April 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | a xxxx Bxxx Bxxxxx xxxcxB xxxxd xxxx xddx xexx dxxx xecaB |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,060 |
Words | 202 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 6, 6, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
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