Janet262012

Malthus once theorized that
Overpopulation would cause
A global reckoning —
Famine, disease, the slow collapse
Of civilization itself.
 
But... what if?
 
What if we endured?
Not just survived, but expanded,
Outward, upward, infinitely.
Houses above houses above houses 
Horizontal to vertical integration —
Lattices of life suspended in midair.
A currency encrypted into flesh and fate,
Calculating worth before birth.
Dying languages and deep culture diaspora 
Meals appearing at the speed of thought, real or rendered.
Odd names with even numbers— mine is Janet262012      Janet262012 Janet262012
Electricity cables now the predecessors and prototypes
No streets, no ground— only currents guiding bodies.
Artificial trees and bees, a cybernetic spring,
Superhuman minds bound to machines.
Cities on Mars and the Moon and the Metaverse
 
Perhaps, only the 1% survived,
Their bodies refined, their genes selected,
An empire of eugenics and superiority.
But was it choice, or chance?
A throne of data, lies and loss—
And yet, they lived.
 
If you could still call it living.