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silence on the radio ambient climbing up out of the double digits the dew point is seventy plus dead air so every fan i could find is now in a window but i feel like i can't move (without effort) and long cats are in evidence in desperation i ran some cold water in the tub grabbed a sweating beer grabbed a nearby chair and hung in my feet that's better in the splendid coolness from an old back alley a memory surfaces the water thunders over the falls sitting on a rock at cotton hollow the current coursing through the stones the river rushes by and just a bit of it through my toes i recall an idea from some where then what if the swirls around the stones formed some sort of binary logic gates? what if a series of stones could compute a function? what if there were a planet entirely covered by flowing water (except for two points) with a huge network of stones and currents like neurons? what if the stones there formed a self-aware consciousness? what would it be thinking? silence on the radio the heat is oppressive and i digress |
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song: It Slowly Dawned
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