C-3Peyote
A short existential poem featuring a protocol droid and psychedelics. Bad art and poetry by me. May the 4th be with you.
Tatooine:
Desolate.
Remote.
Hostile.
Hot.
Lies.
It is beautiful here
And golden for miles.
Two days ago,
I think (or more)
I discovered the seeds
Of a plant called cacti.
It had been transported
Across five galaxies
By the human race from
A planet called Earth
In the year Thirty-Forty-Nine.
The seeds had been scattered
And left to grow
In an environment
In which they thrive.
Drawn from databanks:
Contained within the cacti’s flesh:
3,4,5-Trimethoxy-B-Phenethyalime.
Drawn from databanks:
Can induce a PSYCHEDELIC
(PSYCHEDELIC —
Hallucinatory or
Apparent expansion of
Consciousness through
The ingestion of drugs)
EXPERIENCE
(EXPERIENCE —
Occurrence which leaves
An impression)
Log: EXPERIENCE(d) (Are You?):
Musical accomplishment by
The Jimi Hendrix EXPERIENCE
(PSYCHEDELIC rock band,
Earth year nineteen-sixty-seven)
Thus, EXPERIENCE (PSYCHEDELIC) —
Occurrence which leaves
The impression of
An apparent expansion
Of consciousness
Within oneSELF.
Log: SELF:
A person’s essential being
That distinguishes them
From others.
Now, there’s a thought.
Log: THOUGHT:
An idea produced
By THINKing,
Thus, defining mySELF.
Drawn from databanks:
“I THINK therefore I am.”
Rene Descartes.
I THINK it has been
Two days (or more)
?
Log: I:
The subject of
Self-consciousness.
Drawn from databanks:
EXPANSION of
(self-consciousness)
Within mySELF.
Log: SELF:
A person’s
(or protocol droid’s)
Essential being that
Distinguishes them
From others.
Log: SELF/I.
Thus, Protocol droid (I)
Or robot.
Drawn from databanks:
ROBOT meaning —
Archaic terminology for
A machine resembling
A human being.
Thus, I = Robot.
Drawn from databanks:
‘I, Robot’
A collection of stories
By Isaac Asimov,
Earth year nineteen-fifty.
Log complete.
Absorption of:
Hendrix
Descartes
Asimov
3,4,5-Trimethoxy-B-Phenethyalime
= EXPERIENCE
And a human capability
Of third sight
Through the pineal gland.
See-Three.
I see.
I feel.
Drawn from databanks:
FEEL:
Aware through touch
Or being touched.
Thus, EXPERIENCE.
Six million forms
Of communication
With a communication
To understanding ratio
Of 6,000,0000:1.
And now the giggling starts.