Zombocom

[Brownlie]

We have arrived at someplace new,
where the chaff-husk men, like us, receive potential anima.
Welcome to Zombocom,
says the Haitian ghost as we create him by the din
of elevator music, belonging in a mall.
We stare, transfixed, at circulating expectation
as an ethereal discus rotates on the screen,
and we are either unaware
or perfectly contented with the idea
 that we are drinking light.
He tells us This is Zombocom,
and once again he welcomes all the new arrivals
telling us that anything is possible in his domain.
He seems the idiom of life-in-death, or at least a part of that idea.
Yet, here there was no casting dice.
Here, we are the harbingers of our own fate;
the worshipers of wind and rain in play.
He tells us that the infinite is possible and that the only limit is yourself,
and there is climax to this Stentor as he orates towards a worlds end
and then replays in constant loop
through a thousand screens at once.

[Alexearth]

Hi Brownlie,


Interesting piece. Looks like an excerpt from a post-apocalyptic/futuristic/big brother-type of story like so many I read. Could you put us more into context so we can understand better what's going on? Also I'm curious of what you mean by "receive potential anima", your idea of anima, and also what you mean by "Haitian ghost". Lots of different concepts talked about here which are kind of blurry... and though it's written more like a story than a poem, I do like it.
Eager to read your response!


Alex

[Animal Riots Activist]

HAHAHAH awesome! I don't have a heck of a lot to say about this one except for this:

Welcome, to ZOMBOCOM.
This IS ZOMBOCOM.
Welcome.

https://html5zombo.com/

[Brownlie]

Hi Brownlie,


Interesting piece. Looks like an excerpt from a post-apocalyptic/futuristic/big brother-type of story like so many I read. Could you put us more into context so we can understand better what's going on? Also I'm curious of what you mean by "receive potential anima", your idea of anima, and also what you mean by "Haitian ghost". Lots of different concepts talked about here which are kind of blurry... and though it's written more like a story than a poem, I do like it.
Eager to read your response!


Alex

Thanks for reading. Animal Riots Activitist posted the link to zombocom, which features an endlessly loading flash animation and a serpent and the rainbow type voiceover. I was thinking of anima as a soul-type idea that could be contrasted with the more material concept of chaff-husk men (though the term is confusing and could have multiple meanings). As for potential, I was hoping to get at the expectation provoked by the website, and also at the idea of an ostensibly empty space where someone could form their own world so to speak. To me, the narrator also sounded like a Haitian voodoo stock character one would find in the media. Funny website at any rate because I may have killed the "poem" by breaking the fourth wall here. Cheers.

[Alexearth]

Thanks for reading. Animal Riots Activitist posted the link to zombocom, which features an endlessly loading flash animation and a serpent and the rainbow type voiceover. I was thinking of anima as a soul-type idea that could be contrasted with the more material concept of chaff-husk men (though the term is confusing and could have multiple meanings). As for potential, I was hoping to get at the expectation provoked by the website, and also at the idea of an ostensibly empty space where someone could form their own world so to speak. To me, the narrator also sounded like a Haitian voodoo stock character one would find in the media. Funny website at any rate because I may have killed the "poem" by breaking the fourth wall here. Cheers.

Hey Brownlie,

On the other hand, I think it's nice that know that I know about the website, and that I understand better, it makes the whole poem much more vis à vis of your vision of it and the way you put that into words. What the hell is that website about anyway?? hahaha