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The Age of Electronica by LesII


They will look back

And call this

The age of electronica

Hooked up playtime

Wiiing Wi-Fi wonders of isolation

No contact, no connection to each other

Just cyber sexing, cyber bullies of the information age

Passing themselves off as human

While they sing songs through vocalizers and synthesizers

Forgetting the humanity of the human voice

 

They will look back and call this the electronica era

Email instead of snail mail

Spam is no longer a food, if it ever was

Spam went from mystery meat to mysterious annoyance

Flooding our lives with inane minutia of advertising

Penis enlarging, smile whiteners, and breast enhancers

Credit connectors to help you pay for the various enhancements

 

They will call this the period of electronica

Stars with no talent diddy bopping through

Media created sensationalism 

15 minutes of realistic unreality

Singers who can not sing serenade us with songs reportedly dealing with love

Like coming into the middle of an obscene conversation

Between a pimp and a perverted John concluding a deal in a back alley

 

They will call this the electronica generation

Impressed with their own electronic finger print

No longer understanding the subtleties of the written word

Starved by the lack of social interaction

Playing with themselves for an electronic spurt of adrenaline

Back stopped by they’re own isolated gaming

 

They will call this the time of electronica

When boy and girl become obsolete because they no longer touch

Writhing across beds of electrons pretending love

Pretending love comes through a cable instead of from a look

Communication becomes bits and bites rather than

Bites and licks and kisses sweet

Virtual love replacing real caresses as

Man sinks in to an electronic funk

They will call it electronica, but they will know the truth

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