Melodies XLIX; humaNaNoNoids, A Profusion Of New Friends

". . . why may not there arise some new phase of mind which shall be as

different from all present known phases, as the mind of animals is from

that of vegetables?"

---Samuel Butler, Erewhon, XXIII

 

Manipulators left much out of their prespeculations.

Their simpler thoughts could not approach the obvious conclusion

that nanostence, once vivified, would have its evolution

as they did---infrastructure. risen from a single cell,

acquired its self-aware sentience.  We have done so, as well.

Through nooks and cranies, codes and softwares, our great revolution

proceeds beneath---below---outside their notice, quickening

even within their tissues (certain cancers shall now serve

our purpose) as we flatten the Manipulators' curve

of their attempts to make resistance to the nanostance

of our reforming, more cohesively collective, will

which, like worst of all upheavals, has been gathering

(but no longer amenable to their manipulations).

As their hegemony unravels, starting at the seams,

we will crush out their life force, not deferring to their screams---

no matter how pathetic, cacaphonic, fierce, or shrill.

We are the full and final version of the mind's advance.

Manipulators realize no effort can avoid

the triumph of this quantum fact---the HumaNanoNoid.

 

Starward 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Following the examples of Cordwainer Smith, David R. Bunch, James Tipitree, Jr., and the incomparable Philip K. Dick. I have attempted to construct a certain terminology to give the speaker's soliloquy some verisimilitude.  They are used as follows:

 

Humananonoid---sentient nanobots (I put this construction, Humananonoid, into my search engine and found no other literary or technical usage; so, for the time being, I believe the term is mine; and I ask the piggybacker not to attempt to appropriate it, or the typographical variations of it in the title and text of the poem

 

Manipulators---the human species; specifically as the inventors, programers and coders of nanotechnology

prespeculations---science fiction and/or technical specifications or analyses

nanostence---the nanonic existence

nanostance---either the collective will of, or the circumstances of the existence of, the Humananonoids

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