24 | "Counterculture 2.0" [pantoum]

They call it counterculture 2.0
that's what I read in the New York Times online
the internet is where post-hippies go
reportedly flower power's doing fine
that's what I read in the New York Times online
the love-ins have become the logging-ons
reportedly flower power's doing fine
old bygones have not very far by-gone

the love-ins have become the logging-ons
the tangent has been bullseyed to the center
old bygones have not very far by-gone
the rejected stone has become the cornerstone ENTER
the tangent has been bullseyed to the center
the mousie in the housie clacks its CLICK
the rejected stone has become the cornerstone ENTER
but has the cyber-chronometer lost its tick?

the mousie in the housie clacks its CLICK
the blogosphere's a beehive rife with cliques
but has the cyber-chronometer lost its tick?
not yet have I perused online God Speaks
the blogosphere's a beehive rife with cliques
is the info-deluge going with the flow?
not yet have I perused online God Speaks
they call it counterculture 2.0



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Responsive to Edward Rothstein's article in the New York Times (September 25, 2006), reviewing Fred Turner's book From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (University of Chicago Press)

Meher Baba's magnum opus, God Speaks: the Theme of Creation and Its Purpose (1955), enjoyed some countercultural currency in the late 1960s (when it was read by figures such as Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, among others). The text is not available online (though Meher Baba's other key work, Discourses, is).

This is no. 24 in a sequence, Early Autumn Pantoums