Is This a Dream? How Would You Know?

from Leaving the Land of Before by Sara Ayers

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there was a future once
of monorails and jet trails and
cities in the twilight clouds
now heaven is full of spy satellites
and here's a gift for you
a song on the shortwave
late at night from someplace far way
here's a world for you
in the dreams of the machine
the purpose of a system is what it does
the purpose of a system is what it does

Is this a dream? How would you know?

a stone is mostly space
and space is big and empty
consciousness is a chemical
reaction in a a carbon array
color is just a reflection of light
and gravity is some kind of magic
those are the rules just run with it
those are the rules just run with it

this might is the box we can't think outside of
or perhaps it's just turtles all the way down
look for errors in the simulation
too much information in the spaces up your sleeve
it all changes when you look at it
it all changes when you look at it

can you see the shape of the future?
everything ends
while the universe expands into
nothing
forever
all those far-flung radio waves searching for a receiver
a song no one can hear so far from home

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from Leaving the Land of Before, released August 24, 2018
Composed, performed and recorded by Sara Ayers

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"This is music to conjure lofty dreams of perfect love, to tell trans-galactic science-fiction epics, to examine the inside of a grain of sand." -- Michael Hochanadel, The Schenectady Gazette

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