The Future Is Here

April 6, 2011

I dreamed of this future some time ago.
Back in Pittsburgh 1971
At Dusquesne University
We had a visitor from Ma Bell to talk about "the future"
He said that everyone would have their own TV channel
That media would dominate and be dispersed
Who was he, where is he now?
Where are we now?

Dr. Keyes taught us philosophy.
He was a minister.
He said that he would take the furry Yeeeck from under the bed
and show it to us.
He did.
One day he had a bandaid on his wrist, what was that?

Carnegie Mellon was down the road from us.
We went to dances and loved the band that played
the Steely Dan Song "Never Going Back To My Old School."
Steely Dan is hard to play; we asked them to play it again
They did.
CMU changed the world in ways I didn't know
what else will come out of their computer laboratories?


I used to bike to work every day
I shared a car with my wife
I used to hang my laundry to dry in the country air
I used to hang my laundry in the basement in the winter time
She didn't
She left
I didn't
I left

I burn pellets
I burn less oil than ever
I have low energy bulbs
I think I am doing something
I'm not

I'm happy at other people's and things expense
My therapist said that I should be happy for the money I spent
in New Orleans when I was in "the hole."
" It gives them jobs."
Instead of listening to jazz music I wanted to tear out the inside of damaged buildings
My heart was damaged on the inside and I couldn't

I turned my back on the future
I fell in love and am hopelessly, joyfully, in bliss.......

What now?

Macy said the Great Turning is happening.
I have not watched TV since June 2009
The Great Turning has not showed it face in the pages of the NY Times