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A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms Industry

Excerpt from a board meeting in the mobile telecoms industry


Ten IBM Thinkpads,
upright,
occluding
the air;
a circular monument of monolithic plastic,
(a petrified moulding from some Woodhenge).

Ten executive bodies,
hearts
beating
at five hundred emails a day,
(suckling on vitamin ASCII from the corporate mammon).

Ten hundred PowerPoint slides
churn,
digesting;
bits
sliding in a python's gullet towards the serial port,
(Apollo's poison and prophecy delivered in forked tongue).


(c) Laura Watts
Summer 2006