NEW ::: POETRY Apr. 2015 | Page 85

It's about boredom and entertainment... We gave them all and they killed it, the poetry, yes, that's it. How? Well look ... Soon micro-chipped birds will sing in English or write poetry. Digital echo will swallow Longfellow, Poe and Shakespeare; all poets, critics, and even readers - really all - will be downloadable and available for democratic fees. There is no longer need to read anything too, just download a program of poetic literacy and at the time, bam, you will see in front of you all the necessary poetry lines you want and know, and if not, then who cares?! If you like then the whole world will be rhymed! News, public, movies, games, books, everything! And this is future! And what else? Just click on any item and you will get all words, images, allegories, which were created for it throughout history, in all languages, just read it till death! Even if this item is quite new the program will find an analogue! Any cheap AD-bot is a poet in this world if it has right directive and if you paid a bill for services of rhyming and access to needed databases. That's why there are no poets here. Any certified digital critic, just in a few seconds, can disintegrate a new poem into atoms showing all sense or style links between words, all hidden meaning even unknown for the author of poem, ha, just imagine it! For example - you wrote something simple about love or kittens with no wish to show deep thoughts but a critic got it and created the whole damn Bible with basis of your poem! Awesome? Of course is! But that's not all! The program can write better than you, not because of vengeance to the humankind, no, just for demonstrating the pr