GooGolaria

~

an insidious dementia 

a generation infected, 

the brains of our beautiful 

youth, once vibrant thirsty 

sponges, now lame and 

parched with inertia,

~g~

a voracious machine 

feeds our children behind 

our backs, suckling their 

grateful inquisition with a 

plug-in rechargeable 

intellect, whilst milking their 

desire to seek out learning for

themselves,

~g~

their once insatiable thirst 

for knowledge replaced 

by an ‘always on’ show and tell,

with a ‘suck and fuck’ artificial 

intelligence duping all,

~g~

carrying global libraries 

in a back pocket and a head

in the euphemistic cloud,

learning becomes leisure 

simpletons are made professors

no retention required,

~g~

the search for knowledge is 

now a push-button algorithm

a question answered 

before a question is asked,

young cerebral cortexes

crammed full of thinly-veiled

conman confidence, and a

litany of smart-arsed answers 

rattled off and promptly 

forgotten in a blink,

~g~

the age of mans’ intelligence 

is finally laid to rest.

© Graham R Sherwood 05/25