Amit Majmudar
Look No Further
To His Phone
Upgrade your degradation. Flyspecks dive
through a pinprick, install themselves, go live.
Some thoughts survive the purge. They’re drones
that serve a sterile queen of the neural hive.
A screen shrinkwraps each eyeball, flush with seeing.
New feature: No eye sees beyond its sheen,
images flooding all its rods and cones
until the mise-en-scène becomes the scene.
To think, to look: Old-fashioned, kooky, austere.
The market makes organic vistas cost dear,
like acorn-fattened pork, or a human mate.
Such pleasures are reserved for tech bro money.
They take their sunlight raw, just like their honey,
and hide from what they’ve made behind a gate.
Amit Majmudar’s most recent book is The Great Game: Essays on Poetics (Acre Books, November 2024). More information about his novels and poetry collections can be found at www.amitmajmudar.com.