This last century has been the first ebb of our ‘system’,

That click of numbers seeking quantification of all matter,

The process that has been birthing a planetary civilization,

Learning first lesson of containment, the assembly of body.

For we exponentialed within a century,

And from it, the system added a body:

The timing clock of industrial workers,

The welfare regiments marching wars,

The manufacture of market consumers,

The essentialization of the inner mind,

The knowledge of integrated production,

The cultural metros of a spacey society,

The expressions of a liberated individual.

And now, at this tipping point, where earthen body is fast spent,

This system will switch to learn its second major lesson with us,

For it has our body in its need, as it has this planet by its greed,

And will now find its pathways to inners of mental containment.

The environment requiring we breathe it,

The laws a political social is restrained for,

The corps growing for a planetary exodus,

The transformation of mind upon a body,

The memory of a past cultural dispersion,

The networks watching every connection,

The cloud mind orchestrating a revolution.