As fairies for the Irish or leeks for Welsh,
it’s the secret lives of tiny surprise equipments,
their times, and networks that motivate me:
Mystic concealed functionaries that make
our made globe live, take on little servo electric motors,
whose couplers, whose eccentric fire-filled
sensing units are enclosed in bakelite with brass
screws, that look with red eyes, that evaluate dampness,
that see little movements and react,
whose air conditioning followers call out in white-noise
signs up like older people vocalists– I can
practically hear their earlier tunes, their solid voices
currently yelps, their smacks, their throbs, their hum, their incantation–,
they click, they whir, they are sent out rotating
inside like teen women laughing over young boy bands.
Above All: ones waiting quietly, hiding
the shock of their function, jobs not yet recognized,
their real natures located just in links.
Those that pay attention, those that talk,
those that regulate amazing and warm,
those that open doors, those that secure
all things that we have actually failed to remember,
those that conceal, those that divulge
those installed in our clothing
those in our ears, those in our hearts
those that combine, those a component
of departments, those like birds,
like parrots that finish our words,
those like fish, those that allure,
those that totally free, those that openly flap
in strong winds, those that change
what we have actually shed, those that see
in the evening, in haze, in illumination, in anxiety,
those that reveal what we love,
those that lure, those that ward off,
those that get and those that offer,
those that maintain us active, those that
do not, will not, could not and can not.
Components of one mind, not mine, candid band
of info, packages of feelers
connecting to touch us, educate us, assist us
to create far better futures much better comprehended.
Might your noises, your chimes, your silence relax us.
Might your tender tendrils touch what we look for.
Little components turning into one being linked,
a globe by itself, advise us to be kind.
.
发布者：Paul Jones，转转请注明出处：https://robotalks.cn/ode-to-very-small-devices/
