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Welcome to the Information Age

The digitally distributed

Cyber-nexus, blogosphere

Hyper-driven interwebs

Industrialization's exponentially expanding mutants

Teetering imbalanced ratios

An ever expanding ocean of opinions

Continually contributing to the noise

Researching diminishing returns

Redundant engines, recycled and repeated

Ancient processes perpetually modified

Detergent seeking a quiet chair

Left behind in the paradox of solitude

Endless conversations with nobody about nothing, somehow never forgotten

A single blade of grass

Lost on the super highway

Abandoned atop a mountain

Lonely in the jungle

Trampled beneath the boots of billions of entrepreneurs

Rising to nowhere

For no reason

Preconditioned and preprogrammed and predetermined and prepared

To work

To roll that rock

Eternally uphill

Pushing

Until your feet stink and sweat

Reading

Until your vision is jittery and fading

Typing

Until your fingers stiffen and your toes atrophy and your back creaks and cracks

Rowing

Your boat until your hands blister under the pressure

Stressed

Until you pop a blood vessel in your eyeball

Working

Until your teeth rot and fall out of your head

You have been left out in the rain

Waiting for some bus you don't know much about

With only a small pamphlet called experience which could mean anything, or nothing

All you can do is hope

Hope for goodness and warmth

A place to stay and enough to eat

Yet many never see even that,

Sometimes a handshake and a smile

While traveling from here to there

Can help