Know the Weather [Free Verse]
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DAILY PHOTO: Donggung Palace Pavilions
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PROMPT: Animal
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If you had to be an animal for a week, which one would you be and why?
I guess this means “another animal” as I have to be an animal EVERY week — i.e. Kingdom: Animal; Class: Mammal; Order: Primate; Species: H. sapiens.
Let’s see. Getting comfortable landing in a week would be a challenge, so flying / gliding animals are out. I wouldn’t want to be anything that is popular to hunt. I wouldn’t want to be anything that eats garbage. Seeing what’s in the ocean would be fun. Maybe a shark.
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Steamy [Haiku]
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DAILY PHOTO: From Netravati Peak
PROMPT: 20 Years
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What’s a piece of technology you’re convinced will exist in 20 years?
I think cell phones will be replaced by cheap cyborg implants that fulfill the same myriad functions and more. Just as we were convinced that we were being given a great benefit with social media, when — in fact — we were just handing over our attention and data on the cheap. This time we’ll be signing away a great deal more — we’ll be meat puppets for the billionaires, carrying out consumption function programming as ignorantly blissful as Cypher from The Matrix. Welcome to the Cyber-Sheep economy. BAHaaaaah.
Proviso: People (me included) are shite at forecasting. We call broken clocks “genius” based on those two times a day they are right, but forecasting genius is just selection bias plus Mrs. Cleo pseudo-psychic tactics (be vague, sound specific.) Also, remember we are always one nuclear winter away from flint knapping being the prevailing mode of technology.
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Riverbend [Haiku]
canoe seems doomed
to hit a midstream boulder:
current-swept offline.
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Jinky Orbits [Haiku]
Paradox? [Free Verse]
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DAILY PHOTO: Mysore Palace Main Gate
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