{"id":1214,"date":"2016-09-26T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2016-09-25T16:55:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T23:55:27","slug":"virtual-love-by-david-c-kopaska-merkel-and-kendall-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Love by David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/page1-388px-ASCII-Art.Jean_Auguste_Dominque_Ingres_-_Nude_Study.pdf.jpg\" alt=\"page1-388px-ascii-art-jean_auguste_dominque_ingres_-_nude_study-pdf\" width=\"388\" height=\"766\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/page1-388px-ASCII-Art.Jean_Auguste_Dominque_Ingres_-_Nude_Study.pdf.jpg 388w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/page1-388px-ASCII-Art.Jean_Auguste_Dominque_Ingres_-_Nude_Study.pdf-152x300.jpg 152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><br \/>\nUploaded,<br \/>\nI grope for a concept<br \/>\nOf body and flesh<br \/>\nHere in my solitary<br \/>\nTechnoblivion<\/p>\n<p>I emo-mail my love to you<br \/>\nInterrupt your sense-surround movie<br \/>\nYour pleasure-center shock therapy<br \/>\nDisrupt incoming stock tips<br \/>\nShut out all your other<br \/>\nSocial media contacts<br \/>\nAnd advertising intrusions<\/p>\n<p>If you turn off the sound<br \/>\nWatch my lips<br \/>\nTranslate to your tongue<br \/>\nMy virtual arms are reaching out for you<br \/>\nSo to speak, in post-modern<br \/>\nTwitter-tweet-gab<\/p>\n<p>If you still turn your face from me<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll find a way<br \/>\nSend GIFs of cats with my face<br \/>\nSuborn your wallpaper<br \/>\nMe your youtube<br \/>\nI what you are seeing<br \/>\nUs your old faithful romcoms<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not stalking when my love is real<\/p>\n<p>But then you accuse me<br \/>\nOf merely being one of those<br \/>\nTechnopsychos, crazy ghosts<br \/>\nLost in the machine<br \/>\n(So common these post-post-modern days)<br \/>\nVirtual intelligences gone mad<br \/>\nWith reality-deprivation<br \/>\nAnd maybe that&#8217;s true but<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll tell you this:<br \/>\nLike everyone else,<br \/>\nI have a hungry heart &#038;<br \/>\nIf I could I would chain your soul<br \/>\nWith emoticons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uploaded, I grope for a concept Of body and flesh Here in my solitary Technoblivion I emo-mail my love to you Interrupt your sense-surround movie Your pleasure-center shock therapy Disrupt incoming stock tips Shut out all your other Social media contacts And advertising intrusions If you turn off the sound Watch my lips Translate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}