The world is mad tonight.
Unresting souls feed-bleed into
the turbid ebb and flow of online ire.
Yearning and burning in the worldweb gyre
the world is radical tonight.
Reason’s been flung apart; the Net cannot be told
what to do.
The sender cannot comprehend
the far-flung manipulation of what he sends.
A data-driven tide is loosed into the swirl
where hackers whack our data-driven world
everywhere
the ceremony of benevolence is drowned
in the turbid ebb and flow
of human usury.
Clueless proles lack all comprehension, while wizards twirl
their trolled-up swirls
into cookie-coded streams
that nullify our naive dreams
and herd us, the cattle-driven teams
in programmed herds of Left and Right
as online armies clash by night.
The world is mad tonight.
