all watched over by machines of loving grace

• a [[poem]]
  • by [[richard brautigan]]
  • part of the [[poetry collection]] of the same title
  • see subnode by [[neil]] for the full text
• a [[poetry collection]]
  • a [[subset]] of [[The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster]]
  • [[list]]
  • [[wp]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_(poetry_collection)
  • [[go]] http://www.brautigan.net/machines.html
    • with the titular [[poem]] in it and 31 others
    • might 32 (2^5) have significance?
  • [[meta]] the following section assumes [[auto push]], which I haven't implemented yet :)
    • once it's implemented, each node in the following list should get the children blocks automatically transcluded
  • [[the beautiful poem]]
    • [[phallocentric]]
    • didn't find it beautiful, but hey, at least it's honest
    • sexual in nature
  • [[december 24]]
    • didn't get it, but I like how these are short
  • [[milk for the duck]]
    • sexual in nature
    • seems to be about lack of self confidence after not having sex for 20 days
  • [[november 3]]
    • echoes of [[frank o'hara]]?
    • "there's a pretty girl I want to look at" -- [[richard brautigan]] was all about the ladies
  • [[flowers for those you love]]
    • about [[venereal diseases]]
    • a bit like a [[psa]]
  • [[san francisco]]
    • [[found object]]
  • [[star hole]]
    • I like this one
    • "I sit here / on the perfect end / of a star / watching light / pour itself toward me"
  • [[love poem]]
    • seems there's an ironic vein, as this poem is about not-loving
  • [[I lie here in a strange girl's apartment]]
    • [[ladies man]] strikes again
    • dedicated to [[marcia pacaud]]
  • [[it's raining in love]]
    • I like this one
    • "or perhaps i start to examine, evaluate, compute what I am saying"
    • "in other words / I get a little creepy"
    • "it's raining somwhere, programming flowers / and keeping snails happy"
  • [[hey! this is what it's all about]]
    • "it makes me want to write poetry"
  • [[our beautiflu west coast thing]]
    • [[the mamas and the papas]]
      • [[california dreamin']]
      • [[i saw her again]]
  • [[widow's lament]]
    • short
  • [[december 30]]
    • about a [[fart]]
  • [[lovers]]
    • "put her in a low brass bed"
    • women aren't very active in many of these, perhaps I'm biased by the phallocentric opener but Brautigan feels a bit objectifying?
  • [[a mid-february sky dance]]
    • I liked this one, this feels more participative (a proper dance)
    • "dance toward me, please, as if you were a star / with light-years piled on top of your hair, smiling"
  • [[hey, bacon!]]
    • [[desire]]
  • [[after halloween slump]]
    • [[magic]]
  • [[hollywood]]
    • [[jefferson airplane]]
  • [[it's going down]]
    • "magic is the color of the thing you wear"
  • [[albion breakfast]]
    • written to go with a [[found object]]
    • [[susan morgan]]
      • http://www.brautigan.net/nonfiction.html#morgan
    • [[ladies man]]
      • lived without a refrigerator
      • "physically he was none too attractive, but he was [[charming]]"
  • [[comets]]
    • "there are comets / connected to chemicals / that telescope / down out tongues / to burn out against / the air"
  • [[the pomegranate circus]]
    • "I feel like a drowned king / at the pomegranate circus"
  • [[my nose is growing old]]
    • "I'm 31 / and my nose is growing old"
  • [[at the california institute of technology]]
    • [[bored]] on a rainy day while poet-in-residence
    • clearly pre internet
  • [[your catfish friend]]
    • pre [[catfishing]]
    • "I'd love you and be your catfish friend"
  • [[karma repair kit: items 1-4]]
    • liked it
    • 1. "get enough food to eat, and eat it"
    • 2. "find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there"
    • 3. "reduce intellectual activity and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it"
  • [[all watched over by machines of loving grace]]
    • a [[banger]]
      • taken straight (without irony), it embodies technological optimism and makes me think of the [[agora]]
    • [[cybernetic meadow]]
      • [[programming harmony]]
    • [[cybernetic forest]]
      • "where deer stroll peacefully / past computers / as if they were flowers / with spinning blossoms"
    • [[cybernetic ecology]]
      • [[free of our labors]]
    • [[robert gangeware]] "American poets seldom portray the happy marriage of technology and the natural world. Thus the optimism of the following poem is somewhat unique—unless the reader detects [[irony]], in which case the poem joins [[the mainstream of antitechnological American verse]]."
    • [[charles perry]] "The [[robots will do all the work]] vision of [[utopia]] was certainly widesread, the subject for instance of Richard Brautigan's famous poem, 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace' and one of the recurring ideas in the [[Leary-Snyder]] debate in [[Oracle No. 7]]."
      • this seems like a reference to [[san francisco oracle]]
    • [[a good-talking candle]]
      • "listened to its comfortable voice of light"
      • [[kasina]]
    • [[nine things]]
      • "knows four other things / one is the color of your hair"
    • [[a lady]]
      • [[highway 101]]
    • [[let's voyage into the new american house]]
      • [[doors]]
        • "that want to be free from their hinges to fly with perfect clouds"
      • [[windows]]
        • "that want to be releases from their frames to run with the deer through back country meadows"
      • [[walls]]
        • "that want to prowl with the mountains through the early morning dusk"
      • [[floors]]
        • "that want to digest their furniture into flowers and trees"
      • [[roofs]]
        • "that want to travel gracefully with the starts through circles of darkness"
• a [[film]]
  • by [[adam curtis]]
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_(TV_series)
  • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1397323805899608067
  • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1397321398369062916