Lo and I am like an armadillo, jolted and rolling into a protective tuck,
safeguarding scrolls of Tibetan mantras, chanting Avalokiteśvara – compassion –
as we are shot from the barrels of our phones, armored rounds
of blood-warm arms, legs, intestines, and organs
into the oncoming warships, worships
My skin knows only that tomorrow it will be stretched tight, immense
across the diamond vision screens of Times Square –
thin and translucent, burning pixels of news and all the colors of M&M’s
looking down where the naked cowboy sings in his rodeo boots,
no leather left on the sole, dubious, dub-stepped and pious
Please, mercy, I can't hear my own heart beat
over Kerouac jungle drums in the ChatGPT jukebox,
can't see my breath exhaled and frozen against the collapsed horizon
some genius left in shambles,
malfeasance and malediction
For Shay’s Word Garden and TSM
qbit 
Excellent, qbit ❤
~David
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Thank you sir!
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Wonderful words… your poems are like tumbled rocks in a river. You feel the chaos of the flood and yet there is so much beauty – the alliteration, the careful build up of tension. To be honest, I don’t know what this poem is about but the words really are wonderful. Perhaps I like it in the way one likes music.
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Thank you!! Hey, I don’t know what it is about either. Glad you heard some music, I was aiming for that as much as anything else.
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you dip your pen in the most illustrious and illustrative streams – I wish I was just such an armadillo
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LOL, thanks!!!
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Your words flicker with visuals, its like standing in Times Square with all that stimulation coming from all angles. The screens, the pixels, the songs. I cant help but think of those half dressed cowboys wondering around for a price you can freeze a moment in time on your phone.
There is some controversy going around about a M&M’s commercial for the super-bowl. To wear sneakers or heels. Whats a green M&M to do?
Always interesting here:)
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Oh, thank you so much. Your comment is so much in the spirit of the poem!! Maybe I should point people here when they wonder what the heck?
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A great write … tried my first ChatGPT this morning … it worked beautifully!
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LOL. That’s great. I’ve actually had a lot of fun with it
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Lo (the Noble Savage) would love this piece, and then would burn down your cabin with you in it. The ‘dillo must not be hurt, though!!!
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No ‘dillos were harmed in the writing of this poem, LOL!
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Excellent my friend as always! I love warship worships and the fact that all the colors of M&Ms made an appearance!
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LOL! Thanks!!
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Love this, especially the city scene of cowboy and M&M’s!
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rambling and chaotic .. a LOT like Times Square itself!
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Thank you so much!!
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