They say a picture's worth a thousand words.
If so, then why do poets write?
Do techno shots on paper and on screen
Lack wht science and art imply they mean?
Is this magic show a seduction without end
To hide some lies on which we now depend?
Does the poet's eye of spirit mind
Refute the eye of science-gadget mind?
Does this condensation of our speech
Reveal some truth that science cannot reach?
Will the poet rise up to defy
The rampage-mind's illusion, that Pictures don't lie.?
Does the spirit-eye go blind
From techno-eye, so prettily unkind?
(from Ch XI of The Last Human Spring)
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