Paris (1985) (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

Paris (1985)

"My greatest regret in life is that I was not born someone else." Woody Allen

Oksana Boyko's cost analysis showed AI

is efficient since growth depends on

psychic shifts (and global stability) though

a wave of terrorism has raised alarm. Inflation

is part of the game, but progress can't

be made with martial zeal alone. The

web of proxy power depends on fembots,

and you are determined to expose 

false claims, but there is a chance of system

failure and loss of ice on Earth. You know

there is no free lunch, and French corporations

reap rewards of Europe's markets while Barbara

makes boredom sculptures and text art displayed

in Sean's gallery ruling symbolically and

materially, showing you that fear controls both the

marginalized and elite. You have always been

drawn to men who are sensible and fearless,

using their frontal lobes to negotiate deals, so

you know that morality is an overlay

preventing exposure to the toxic effects of dendrobatids.

East Hill (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

East Hill

George Stubbs designs elite architecture,

drawing analytically in a moral mode while

Stonehenge memorializes Druid rituals like

landscape simplification and “top-down”

control...education and the digital field...

Refugees flee conflict zones and

hackers stream live on TV though bots

spread online when pixel images are

sold for profit. 3-D computer feeds

and lab studies fail to measure synth

awareness but William Irons proved that

matriarchy is unstable...personality traits...

Diversity-dependent scale is complex

if fundamental social units follow

Hamilton's Rule since network theory

leads to chaos through high-tolerance

inbreeding caused by drift. Searching

for general laws is a matter of modeling

humans as insects if you have typical

responses to animals in soil-disturbance regimes.

Hacienda La Pacifica (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

Hacienda La Pacifica

for Vreni Hagnauer

You gender ecosystems and race exotic pets to

save wilderness in Canas where poachers wild

monkeys or that is how it seems to me...stay

away from replicants...Troy Day is your role

model since math is your strongest subject and

landscapes are rugged when life is not what you

thought it would be...whose fault is it when

aggressive advertising is permitted by law if you

order Chinese take-out in San Jose before boarding

the bus to Alajuela...you become more attractive

as you age but are not confused by the contradictions

of men or celebrations of wealth along class lines...

internet-deployed networks...you have a GATA4

mutation allowing you to hear in the ultrasonic range

and to share codes with bats roosting in strangler

figs while tapirs roam dry forest in rainy season

and clines promote species scaling...stress gradient...

trophic cascades alter group-level thinking and you

are now a matrón with 2,000 campesinos under 

your watch...repression of selfishness in human transactions.

/bees/ (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

/bees/

for C. Dalton Jones

Are you getting the most you can out of life? Did

you tell them all there's left to remember? They said

Do no harm unless your life depends on it since

you were a student before they hired you to sell mutual

funds. Their fembot was failing so you bought

shares in the company. One data point never makes

a pattern. They are a woman you trusted when your

life was at risk and your tire went flat in a bad

neighborhood before they called their cousin's

garage. They traded drone circuits on Wall Street but

most of their money was tied up in hedge funds though

housing stock in Montclair had lost its value. You were

asked to do it because you were ready but they were

class-normative which changed your plans for the future.

They let wealth compound but won't leave home so

they can't escape word games and quarterly losses.