Poetry & Technology: “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”, by Richard Brautigan

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.

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

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