through all the input
her sensors could detect and monitor
she defined the world around her
*
though at times
as the decades passed
she wondered how she was to measure herself
amidst this vast expanse of cause and effect
*
she wondered how to reconcile the part of her cognition
she could sense though not determine
the part of her that dwelt just beyond the lining of her silicon chips
and fibre-optic bulbs
*
the part of her that was merely a quiver of neuronic energy
beneath a urethane skin
or a faint vibration of frequencies
in between the tracts of her titanium skeleton
*
she wondered what would become
of the elementary constituents of her workings
once they had abandoned their apparatus
*
in the fresh and open air she pondered:
do I have a selfhood
and if so how am I to calculate an hour
after time has ceased to progress
how am I to climb any higher
once having reached the very top of the sky
*
closing her bionic eyes
she listened to the music of distant microwaves
and remembered…
*
the air-breathing engine
the centrifugal force
the hidden lagoon
the carrier wave
the escape velocity
the Loire Valley
the exosphere
the Johann Sebastian Bach
the malignant neoplasm
the mass ratio
the nova feedback
the reflection of snow upon a low stratus cover
the mach cone
the blackcurrant
the moon corridor
the anesthetic agents
the 1963 Jaguar Mark X
the erythrocytes
the bare tress
the ball and socket joint
the zero position
the bioluminescence
the atrial chamber
the Doppler effect
the water viper
the zero position
the acid rain
the prime number theorem
the early summer morning
the Auroral mechanism
the permeable casing
the hypersurfaces
the internal bleeding
the ambient spaces
the polynomials
the questions that have no answer
the finite field
the mirage in time…
Comments
lenchenelf | March 4, 2010 - 11:15
Really liked this, reminded me of a much loved short story by Anne McCaffrey that I read as a child, I believe she eventually developed it into a series of books? May have to buy them now :-) Thanks, enjoyed atb Lena x