This abstruse epoch of endless information
is a virulent strew of ingrowing metadata –
It is thrown wide like blindly hurled seeds
We have set the volume to unheard of levels
and whine about the pain as the cooled servers
draw enough kilojoules to run a billion light bulbs
This is our second flood – set to lift much higher –
an oily risen tide upon remote isles – floating nodes
litter the no longer habitable low lying atolls –
those last places wired into free knowledge –
they are being removed by our unedifying worship
of the lords of the clouds – those five fat silos
And when we have drawn the last of the gold –
the silica – the bauxite and life from this place
we will no longer have any word for ‘search’
