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Devices
Abstract cloud
filters the sun as it beats down
but our light shines from another place:
a pixellated heaven, this handheld universe.
Sunlight, failing,
leaves us to our own devices,
hunched depressives on walls and benches,
eyes on an invention.
Time is dying where we sit;
the material world echoes
like background noise.
It's a matter of focus, like Heisenberg's Principle of Uncertainty. The more you look one way the less you can see anywhere else.
Of course, Warner was talking at the atomic level, but it applies as much to human attention. We immerse ourselves in what seems to be everything and find that we're lost in a small part of very little.
Reality is bigger than that. And we're too engrossed to notice.
filters the sun as it beats down
but our light shines from another place:
a pixellated heaven, this handheld universe.
Sunlight, failing,
leaves us to our own devices,
hunched depressives on walls and benches,
eyes on an invention.
Time is dying where we sit;
the material world echoes
like background noise.
© BH, 2025
It's a matter of focus, like Heisenberg's Principle of Uncertainty. The more you look one way the less you can see anywhere else.
Of course, Warner was talking at the atomic level, but it applies as much to human attention. We immerse ourselves in what seems to be everything and find that we're lost in a small part of very little.
Reality is bigger than that. And we're too engrossed to notice.
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