Cyborg Series

By Sini Jose

Our Cyborg at his Multilineal Existence,

Scene 1.

In to the Morning 

Seamless world ahead

Freedom par description, 

At the zero cost of any riot. 

The church bell

The fitness hour

The school bell

The rush hour city traffic

√√OPEN/ closed

The panic of White cave

Order and pattern. 

The empty question hours. 

Channeled right- left, 

Downward-upward moves. 

open/ CLOSED√

The evening comic relief

Freedom Unparalleled

Re- turn. Ways back<

Undo, undo, undo... 

Evening church bell

Rest from freehours

Chit- chat

Water games

Urge for loneliness 

Inescapable bench-mate

Into the night cave

To born into the 'next please' cycle. 

With the church bell.

Cyborg's Multilineal Existence: Scene 2

Our cyborg

In the Zenith of Evolution. 

Blessed with the best

Glittering Gold Wedding Ring

Excel any metallic CIRCUS RING !! 

The Ringed Obedience. 

Ringing Love-Tale

Same-same = Same-same! 

Points of Origin, 

Ownership Certificates, 

Matching Account Statements. 

(a + b)2=a2 + 2ab + b2 

Mathematical Precision! 

Equalling all points, 

Weighing equal weight, 

No Loss- No Profit ! 

ZERO-SUM Game!!!

Cyborg's Multilineal Existence - Scene 3

Our cyborg

Winning all the 

Best- ever awards. 

Best employee memento, 

Over- time salary, 

Under- time affect moments

In tune with the smell of 

Sabbath hours. 

Best- ever Career plans

Carefully chosen

Family - welfare Projects

Anxiety medical schemes

Share- market policies

Proud Partner B!! 

Planned Parenthood!! 

Clinically Neutral

MACHINE-cut 'BONDS'

INDUSTRIAL perfection

Annual achievement award. 

To the 'MECHANISED Mr. HUMAN'

For NEVER being with AFFECT.

Prosthetic extensions

Expanded all sides

Free at hand bench-mate

Soft-touch motor- car

Gadget signalling

Masculine professionalism 

With the glittering

Partly-eaten silver fruit. 

Forbidden fruit re- imagined . . .

Cyborg’s Multilineal Existence: Closing Scene 

This side/ that side? 

Barbed wire lay amidst. 

THAT SIDE

The Primitive. 

The Omnipresent Other Self. 

The displaced sapien part 

Long-lost fragment of being 

The thirst grew unanswered

The violet wine never listened to. 

The spring-tales never lived through. 

The not-taken road left behind. 

Nomadic placelores unexplored. 

The forest, the mountains, the mythical lands. 

The untouched valleys. The unspoken Word. 

The Anima, the Affect, the Human...

Switch on – Entry!

Option A- Administrator?

Option B- Guest?

Wild card Entry!

Across the barbed wire

Into the Green pasture! 

Oh! there comes! 

ALERT Alarms! 

Sound Sirens! 

Red Signals! 

Malware Detected Display on Screen!!

Ever Active, Pre-paid Protective Systems. 

Security Softwares on alert mode. 

Risk, Reason, Righteousness! 

Safety, Security, System's Right! 

Not enough to form a union yet, 

Not enough to defeat the ferocious Other. 

Still, all of a sudden, 

The reverse turn mode! 

Springs from within

The FEAR of the OTHER 

The Risk of Failure. 

Intellectual Pride

The Hubris. 

Shaking pillars

Losing strength

Withdrawal symptoms.

Betraying one's own troop 

SELF defeats the beloved OTHER

Cyborg strangles the Sapien

Installed software conquers the innate wild-fire. 

Cyborg crouches back to it’s Machine World...

Into the endless cycles of 

Church bell- white cave- night cave days...

By Sini Jose