poet's view

     Lost in the fascination over new products generated by computer technology is the fact these advances in the arts of abbreviation have stripped us of our bodies--  bodies made for direct connexion to the earth & sky.  Worse yet, technology sells itself on the premise that the body is not only inefficient & cumbersome, but the locus of hardship & 'necessity'-- which it happily dispatches with its swarm of (pricey) appliances....