The Resurrection, by Carl Johnson

What do I want
Escape from this chaotic environment
for the inherent inconvenience, the consequent struggle through which bores and repels me.

Psychedelic triptych: a man huddled amid clocks and chaos, a serene leafy face, then a figure rising joyfully on a pathWould that I could upload my mental profile into some cyberspace medium, that my biographical self, the consciousness of which, might be recreated in the process of some future AI entity’s scrolling of past events and resurrecting what once was, minus that which was unpleasant, all that induces chaos having been purged.

That my electromagnetic essence, the pattern of which interacting with a myriad of information-bearing patterns, the substance of which relates to the bliss of experiencing an environment, so friendly and accommodating, that in our recreational pursuits, for there be no other, we experience only pleasure, and where the feeling of everything being just right prevails, all that might be deemed excessive, having been cancelled out by that which would be deemed insufficient *

About the author: Carl Johnson was previously published in Planet in 1999: Earthbound Entities.
Email: carljames57@gmail.com
About the artist: Romeo Esparrago exists mainly in cyberspace.

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