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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