Re: [-empyre-] a-life poetic moments

[Mitchell Whitelaw <mitchell.whitelaw@canberra.edu.au>]

> a-life experiences have given me poetic moments

Perhaps the truest form of a-life poetry currently on the loose, are 
the perfectly banal texts of virus emails. It's no stretch to propose 
that these are the reproductive organs of engineered virii - they are 
the flowers, and hapless humans are the pollinators; they entice us, 
and we trigger their reproduction. Only difference is that bees etc. 
get some real benefit (food) out of pollinating flowers... hopefully a 
sign that virii are not (yet) sustainable lifeforms...

Mitchell

(for more along these lines see my catalaog essay for electrofringe 04 
- REPLICATE - http://www.electrofringe.org)