Chips

There in the paper, lost among the news
of stuff the reader values
with a more heightened surge of blood
There's the item of yet another chip
newly minted and its capacity
dates this piece as surely as a time capsule
One point six billion calculations in a second
as if we could concieve of that

Mies spoke of less as more and proven right
by the architecture of computer chips
it's a legacy of thought in either case
But thought's a different thing than calculation
and we're still Model T-ing with calculation
and I wonder if we may outrun thought
bound to a dictatorship of zeros and ones
as if we could concieve of that

So there it is, tucked away in my paper
among more popular wars and scandal
Still man's an old hand at making war
well taught in the art of scandal
and such an untested naive calculator
Zeros and ones may answer before they're asked
these questions of man's thoughtfulness
as if we could concieve of that