Messiah https://dusie.blogspot.com/2020/12/tuesday-poem-401-sj-fowler-messiah.html
I have died of my planning
Jackson Mac Low
feel sorry for those who survived, not for those who did not
for what solar measurements what sun burn
remains for the arithmetical? what complaint forms?
I have measured engine stars, they are wide enough
for a child to reach with a broken back
where bots walk upright when I Crawl
things will have finally to change
with some dismay in there but
with me the one cutting down, all lucy
The NSA says pull this fanny away
he doesn’t realise we can die too
but what if you’re the one
who codes the other in NON space by coping?
I don’t doubt, nor tend to think we were meant to be freed
it powers over entire networks
Messiah is taken from the upcoming collection 'That What Don't Concern You' from Kingston University Press, a conceptual-narrative poetry collection that centres around a programmer in the UK's GCHQ internet surveillance department, who publishes poetry online and gets in trouble with his employers.
From the publisher “Confiscated in secrecy and leaked for poetic intervention, device #0 is as much a poetry collection as a sardonic belly tickle for the rank underside of our online reality. SJ Fowler’s “THAT WHAT DON’T CONCERN YOU” considers the paradoxes of life lived in the age of the internet, when the line between public and private disintegrates and inexorable intelligence surveillance is a given. Sinister and playful, ambiguous and precise, Fowler’s poems ponder the consequences this has for the self, for the watchers and for the watched.”
