Apr 10, 2021
21 — Influencers
Emergence poems #1
“Emergence is beautiful and dangerous” (Nora Bateson)
What will life be like as we emerge out of this particular crisis and move into the next? It probably will not be like anything that is being planned for and designed by the ‘grown ups’. And it certainly won’t be the kind of world that is imagined by the ‘rebel’ influencers with their conspiracies, love and light and hopelessly naive invitations to the some great awakening or new paradigm or return to the wild.
We’re in a fix, that’s for sure…
Influencers
Temporary levitation misread as miracle
is transmuted to a moment of transcendence
ASMR air-brushed emotion, homage invited
with the hesitant, hypnotic feign of eye-contact
Honest honesty, honestly transmitted
through Instagram reels, cunningly edited
Trauma responses, exploited childhoods
(your’s and their’s) with the relevant and expected
Coincidence, obvious simplicity and the
construction of mythic fields of consciousness
Resonance, morphed into learned responses,
epistomology that lasts for generations
Playing with quantum fields as if you understand
the way the spin goes this way and that
Playing with DNA, as if you understand
the twists and turns of conscious fantasy
Evolution evolves and, as an evolutionary,
you understand the spiral of elitism as it spins
Towards the inevitable eugenics of magic wrapped
in dreadlocks, psychedelics and sovereignty
As, all the time, science evades you, and your gods
swirl and feint around your yoga hardened body
You clutch pearls to your chest as paradigms
are bypassed, and eternal spirit falls to earth.
