Brautigan All Watched Over

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

H. Rousseau-The Dream rousdrem.jpg (52322 bytes)

Henri Rousseau, The Dream, 1910

Image enlargable at Mark Harden's Artchive
Oil on canvas, 6' 8 1/2" x 9' 9 1/2"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

See also Hieronymus, or Jerome, Bosch, and follow the links to The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1500

I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.

I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms

I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.

Richard Brautigan, 1968