2311 - Machine gun

Coffee, TV, washing machine, flat, world
Consciousness, eyes, skin, hair, lungs, heart, liver
News, death but not birth, hate not love, it's old
But new to each unknown new-born seer
The forgotten have forgot they were here
They lost out being first, there was less then
Now there's too much, will cost the next lot dear
The difference between computer and pen
Technology has outstripped the human
It's smarter than its users and its world
But it still needs its users to give a
Breath of real life, a breath full of poison
Garbage in, garbage out, plug can't be pulled
Machines are our slaves, driving us faster

1877 - Recorded history

New Jersey, 1877
A relatively young man called Thomas
Edison invents the phonograph and
Ushers in recorded sound and records
Although Emile Berliner's idea was
To make it flat and round and playable
On both sides, A side, B side, twenty years
Later, and that product was the staple
Medium for most music fans up until
The 1980s. I remember when
I was a toddler, getting grubby paws
On my parents' discs - Ken Dodd, the Beatles
I became a paper boy, bought my own
Round slices of heaven, glamorous noise