This is what the future looks like. It was all personal to me. Boxing kangaroos and octopi.

Poetry | Christine Walde

Microdose

That idea wasn’t mine. This product is known to contain chemicals that cause cancer. Add it up. What’s the answer. Statistics show that two-thirds of anything is one-third that’s not. My brain stem hurts. A flaming ball in space wearily makes its way to Earth. Stephen Hawking’s DNA. Clone that shit! Artisanal chocolate. Enough of this. Give me what I want.

At My Signal Unleash Hell

Whatever happened to Paris Hilton? Fraud. Afraid to be found out. The midnight cry of gulls confused by neon daylight. This is what the future looks like. It was all personal to me. Boxing kangaroos and octopi. Real pecan wood. Scraping wet vanilla bean. We reach the summit. Take the girls to the sheik. Maggots fester, healing the wound. Heads are gonna roll.

Millennium

More sparkle is necessary. Defeat the beasts from the evil planet. X always marks the spot. We strive for meaning; we’ve lost our way. Meet me in the parking lot. What have you got to say? Shout it from the sidewalk, let us know you’re cray cray. Between luminous bouts of sleep, I dream words half-mouthed, half-heard, morphing and shifting as bubbles in front of my face. RIP Carrie Fisher. Make the jump to hyperspace.

Monoculture

In the years that followed. Prediction’s splinter. Wait after permissions. Dolorous entrances. Contamination. Memory spits in phosphorescent sawdust, vacuums. Shells glimmer on the iridescent floor of mirrors. The DMT elevator, zoom in: o the horror. Instigating mischief, poking a hole. Tearing at the picture, lifting from a corner.

Parabiosis

The millennials of Silicon Valley are banking their blood for the future. At the variety store beside the DQ in the small strip mall: Protect Your Identity Shred Here. Shaking the delicate hand of the plastic surgeon. Yes, there’s an app for that. Our data defines us. Play this at 33 RPM. I’m a social butterfly. Watch me flit. Download my preservation aura.

Titles For Anything

The Singularity Turing Test. 
Natural Language Terms And Conditions. 
Metahuman Technological Determinism. 
Signal Processing.  
Cybernetic Totalism.  
Second Order Expressionism.  
Hive Mind Output. 
Viral Stoner.  
Mulholland Ambrosia. 
Jazzercize Party Animal. 
Eight Of Swords Eraser. 
Desert Island Thong. 
Absentia Headache. 
Neruda Cichli. 
Nerve Agent Assassin.  
Polonium Apothecary. 
Futurist Waistcoat Whistleblower. 
The Grey Hazards Of Leisure.  
The Mental Load.  
Shingle Spit Still Life With Two Eagles. 
Off Grid Granite. 
Chronic Corner.  
Katie Moore’s Law.  
Coke Sign Gel Nail Polish.  
The Experienced.  
Single Use Architecture.  
Late Bus.  
Mojave Phone Booth.   
Surviva Liferaft.  
Kid Zone Panpsychism. 
Sober Ways Of Dealing With A Dead Sibling. 
Garden Bay Lake Charades.  
Chuck-A-Nut Fire Island.  
Bitcoin Pacific Challenger.  
Blockchain Refraction Network.  
Summit Fingerlings.  
Bunion L’origine.  
Mainland G-Spot Taboo. 
Cassini Berth. 
Subliminal Satan Decision Theatre.  
Bhag Danger Pay.  
Music For Smart Moontime Children.  
Cup Nation Troubador.  
Margarita Fujiwhara Effect.  
Skycheck General Strike.  
Stewardess. 
Hill Of The Muses.  
Cruising Altitude Debt Dynamics.  
Cabin Crew Collect Call.  
Instagram Athena.  
Woman Alive.  
Zone Three Austerity Colony.  
05m05s. 
Fuschia Bites.  
Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone.  
Future Didactics.  
Dirty Writers.  
Orbit Insertion. 
Peinture De Feu Sans Titre.  
Nostromo.  
Ridon Burial Of The Geometric Period.  
Colonnes San Fin.  
Self-Destruct Atelier.  
Hot Wrap.  
Boundary Stone Of The Archaic Fountain. 
Laptop Mafia Eucalyptus.  
La Coeur Sur Deux Chaises.  
Looking At Blue.  
Ergodic Dreams.  
In C Formulae.  
Tassel Bag.  
Polyhedral Tuna.  
The State Of The Worry.  
Le Kid.  
Window Seat.  
Zona Fumatori.  
La Source.  
Ruins.  
The Void Devouring The Gadget Era.  
Silver Bedhead.  
Aqua Alta Peaches. 
The Epley Manoeuvre.  
Cocco Shock.  
Spritz Pudenda. 
Aphrodite.  
False Flags.  
Primary Coordinates.  
Zika Blunt Explosives.  
Liquidator Underlinings.  
How To Live In A Bikini.  
Winter Booty Tan. 
Bifolia Travel Bug.  
Starfish Prime.  
Biologica Reserva Mandala.  
Vampire Kill.  
TV Or Not TV. 
Denver Iguana Boot.  
Nardil.  
Sin Salida. 
Playa Beckett.  
The Long Room.  
Ways Of Seeing A Seashell.  
Semper Liber.  
Juicyfruit Warp.  
Mothership.  
Autonomous Sensory Meridien.  
bill bissett.  
Pura Vida Gridwing.  
Command Eye Riptide Reef.  
The Notebook Messenger.  
Two Degrees. 
Surfo. 
Snow Day. 
Ruling Patterns.  
Precariat.  
Space, Inc.  
Meditation On A Box.  
Ancestor Simulation Spelunker.  
To Do List.  
Vault 7.  
Simulation Theory.  
Dinner Party Inside Job.  
Catch As Catch Can Hydra Loop.  
Sober.  
Empty Threats.  
Raymond Pettibon Gasoline Nukes. 
EKG Whoosh. 
Wall Label Coming Soon.  
Original Housing.  
The Strength Of Weak Ties.  
Fake Screen Time.  
The Real World.  
Free WiFi.  
Breakaway Market Value. 
Time Travel Chord Progression.  
Torrefaction Foncée, 
Extinction Elegies.  
DMT Biobag.  
Drugs.  
Executive Control.  
The Consensus Of Truth.  
David Bowie And Peter Frampton Search For A Beer In Madrid. 
Gone Grey. 
Your Mission.  
The Water Age.  
Busy.  
The Obstacle Is The Opportunity.  
Sweet Jamz.  
Weeping Angel Failure.  
Surveillance Capitalism Red Wings.  
Action Academic Freedom.  
Triple XXX Infinity Comb.  
Marble Juggler Of Gravity. 
Ulysses Cloud Chamber.  
Continental Shelf Life.  
Perfect Binding.  
Glory Ice Box Cookie.  
Fidelity.  
Sob Story.  
Theoretical Armature.  
Chorus.  
DJ Funeral.  
Spring Concert.  
Live Reef.  
A Note About Pronouns.  
Mister Lady Miss Dandy.  
Liberty Screenshot Wish List.  
Shipping Containment.  
Piston Of The Draft.  
Negatives Pace.  
Butterflied Reams.  
Debt Of Nations.  
Anthropocene Economics.  
The Two Moons Of Earth.  
Wishing Chair.  
Before The Internet.  
After The Internet.  
Not It.  
Nihilist Milkshake.  
Made In China.  
Organs Of Perception.  
Fugitive Asteroid.  
A Diamond In Your Mind.  
Brides And Bachelors.  
Zone Apollinaire.  
Killer Bass.  
Synonyms For Void.  
Introspection Engine.  
Sir Tim Berners-Lee.  
Saint Artemisia.  
Starfucker.  
Swimming After A Sailing Ship Already Sailed.  
There Are No Original Ideas Anymore.  
Constant Apocalypse.  
Forever Beyond Our Ken Doll.  
Quincy Jones Daydream.  
High Jump.  
Egg.  
The Epoch Of The Masters Of Levitation.  
Stars Of The Lidless.  
Considering The Sexual Styles Of Many Modernist Men. 
Obsolescence Report.  
Disaster Planning.  
Purple Haze Phase.  
Chinook Cookbook. 
Everything You Did As A Balloon.  
Surveyor.  
No Touch.  
Ultimate Check.  
The Hoodie Gone Glam.  
Privacy Commissioner Moonlights In Vermont. 
Reilluminations.  
Virtual Reality Drawing Board.  
Operating Systems.  
Second Ferry Rumours.  
Mystery Machine.  
Quiver.  
Vellum Intentions.  
The Agitator.  
Backward Going.  
The Kingdoms Of Story.  
Feather Star Virus.  
Biology Of The Book.  
Light Sails Futurology.  
Lagtime Microdose Laser.  
Deep Space Integration Nanocraft.  
AI Roster Notan.  
CYMK Moon Hookers. 
The Magnificent Isaac Hayes.  
Prussian Blue Suicide Mission.  
Digital Shadow Aura.  
Mic D’Echo.  
The Hypersurface Of Simultaneity In Laws Of Motion. 
Kung Fu Rose.  
Retinal Parabiosis.  
Verge Escarpment.  
Social Butterfly Playbook.  
GPS Dart.  
Current Location Installation.  
The Auction.  
An Americano In Paris.  
Endangered Worldline.  
Absolute Elsewhere.  
Pray For Aleppo.  
Magic Eye Mobile Order.  
Unknown Square.  
#NYE17.  
Weather Reporter Aircraft Carrier.  
Qubit 5.0.  
Gen X Dynamics.  
Cheetah Slug.  
Chilled Champagne Chamber.  
German Saboteur Cache.  
Rainbow Flick.  
The Physiological Optics Of Stereoscopy And Persistence In Sound And Vision. 
Womanifesto.  
Sex Maniac Authority Control.  
The Knitters.  
Haunted Topic Modelling.  
Obstetric Phantoms.  
Acid Soccer Mom Jeans Wash Day.  
Stud File.  
Anchoress.  
Catalogue Confessionale.  
Domestiques.  
Alien Midlife Crisis.  
Ontological Dynamos.  
Helicopter Flight Path.  
Capsule Wardrobe Costume Change.  
Pandorra La Vella.  
Nude Leopardtard. 
Zero Subfield.  
Active Passing Lane.  
Fourth Wall Kombucha Scobie.  
The Tempters.  
Space Junk Foot Passenger.  
Full Cream Ice Cream Orange Scream Sickle Circle Sandwich. 
Armour For Man And Horse.  
Eye Of Tiffany Ra. 
The Alpe D’Huez Affair.  
Maya Codex.  
Pornographer.  
The Word For Arrow.  
Dubsar. 
MOOCS On Mars.  
The Logic Of Paper.  
Abandoned Library.  
Paintings of Frequency.  
Male Fantasy Horror Movie.  
Langue Privée.  
Mirror Island Sneeze.  
Taboo La Raza.  
Morning Cleaning.  
Remote Control Threshold.  
Bengal Lounge Vestibule.  
We Are Open.  
Reality Cheque.  
NASA Suitcase.  
Solar Sunset.  

Christine Walde (she/her) is an artist, poet, and academic librarian whose work combines library and archival research with interests in artists' books and multiples, experimental poetry, prose, visual poetry, performance, and the visual arts. Her work has been published in print and online in Canada, the US, the UK, and Germany, and has been exhibited both locally and internationally. Her artists' books are held in both private and institutional collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario. Walde is the Fine Arts & Grants and Awards Librarian at the University of Victoria Libraries and lives on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people in the Cascadia Bioregion of the Pacific Northwest. www.christinewalde.com

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