{"id":124477,"date":"2018-12-24T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=124477"},"modified":"2018-12-20T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:04:54","slug":"computer-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/12\/computer-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;Voltaire<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My computer knows me<br \/>\nbetter than I know me!<br \/>\nIt knows my in\u2019s and it knows my out\u2019s.<br \/>\nKnows my subterfuges, knots and doubts.<\/p>\n<p>It whirls me in its Quantum maze!<br \/>\nI\u2019m on a leash\u2014like a humanoid dog.<br \/>\nI expect it to show up when I\u2019ve got to crap!<br \/>\nI expect it to clean up after I\u2019m gone!<\/p>\n<p>Everything I\u2019ve felt or thought\u2014it knows!<br \/>\nIt\u2019s got me linked to every other person\/non-person<br \/>\nin the Great Big U.!<br \/>\nMy future\u2019s encoded for me!<\/p>\n<p>I hardly know why I exist anymore\u2026.<br \/>\n\u201cTo suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune\u201d?<br \/>\n\u201cCaptain of my Soul\u201d\u2014and all that bunk?<\/p>\n<p>What can we ask when there are no more unknown unknowns?<\/p>\n<p><em>______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gary-corseri-e1520779703371.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gary-corseri-e1520779703371.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Dr. Gary Steven Corseri is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment.<\/a> He <\/em><em>has published\/posted poems, articles, fiction and dramas at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/author\/?a=Gary%20Corseri\" >Transcend Media Service<\/a> and hundreds of publications and websites worldwide.\u00a0 He has performed his work at the Carter Presidential Library and his dramas have been produced on PBS-Atlanta. \u00a0He edited the \u201cManifestations\u201d literary anthology.\u00a0 He has published 2 novels and 2 poetry collections, has taught in US public schools and prisons and in US and Japanese universities. <\/em><em>Contact: <a href=\"mailto:Gary_Corseri@comcast.net\">Gary_Corseri@comcast.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My computer knows me<br \/>\nbetter than I know me!<br \/>\nIt knows my in\u2019s and it knows my out\u2019s.<br \/>\nKnows my subterfuges, knots and doubts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":84067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}