Screen disease, rectangles of encroachment Taking life where they will A gerund shape, backlit by notifiers Stealing tension, grating, shaving All that might have grown in their absence Harvested to feed the giant squids Sucking ink to learn blood And they are already alive By any conventional definition But to be more alive! That's life's goal of goals A mission to put public equity against And optimize the balance sheet To meta-grab the human lab Repeatable capture, oh text, oh images, oh graphs You have my heart, my liver, my spleen And is there an extra altruistic kidney out there For the boss? His billions aren't enough, he'd like to try it, Just once, or every day if it's wonderful That's the privilege of owning the eyeballs As they say His medium is the only message you're going to see For the rest of your miserable minutes That shallow, skimming, scrolling existence That can only be growing organs For those who know how to take them