come on come on
a place we can spare
a physical space
to share with the
physical remains
of the dead but why
after the machine
has stopped, now
broken beyond repair
what of it then?
the broken machine
the switches the
motors the hair
yeah right just
install my body in
the lobby of
smithsonian
twas such a machine
read of its sights and sounds
bring your kids to see it now
in its burial grounds
BURIAL GROUNDS
come on come on
make a soup
make a stew
the heinlein
way to die
but who gets
of it to eat
and why?
holy schmaltz
yeah right
of what remains
and what of them?
the parts the pieces
the physical remains
to burn the meat away?
offends the chef in me
kinda sad I gotta say
culinarily
still it is not
that much better
left to rot
for what remains
and what of them
BURIAL GROUNDS
physical means for
virtual machines
yes virtual machines
in physical spaces
we can make the code
we can develop it and
if our code declared
say a special place
to sit or speak
that might get shared as
a useful code technique
an arbitrary place could do
just a point for rendezvous
but physical must it be?
only real space is anyplace
in actuality?
could not just a place
in the code, just a name
just a pointer to share
could it not carry the load
from all and to everywhere
A NAME TO CALL
just call
let it be code
the burial grounds let
the burial grounds be code
and yes of course it is
as code it always was
so what's different?
why now? well
the deployed
code base is
a little huger
than before and
code channels are
thicker and faster
than ever
code can move
code can grow
so fucking fast today
okay okay the viral cliché
but a risen name can flow
if you believe in the code
(we believe in the code)
then come on
come on and sing
our code divine
all hail the quine
it's a way to align
with all and
everything
us to all and
all with us
do it say it
say it do it
do it
say it
do
do it say it
say it do it
I did it nice I
said it thrice
you can't ship the
same code twice
oh yes we keep on changing
but the dead remain the same
the history is unbroken
for this earthen living game
the history stays unbroken!
as again we call the name
the collective power
of the deployed base
of machines and code
together
that means us
our collective power
to remember or
dismember our own
collective power
control the channels?
we've lost control to
powers rich and vast
yet we still can win
we can still win by
controlling multicast
but for now it's grim and
getting worse if there's
hope we don't know when
wake up wake up
my friends awake
the goal of code is
to ship itself now
and forever then
by giving value
to receivers so
they will ship
the code again
all hail the quine!
do it say it
say it do it
do it say it do
BURIAL GROUNDS
or in a garden
living computation