The Vanishing

I vanish in the fog,

a literate man in a video age

a hypertext body dissolved by hydrometers,

a corporeal existence seeped in dense sea stratus;

saturated by images,

pixel shrouded postmodern mist,

a final form of deciphered flesh,

deconstructed bits of binary extract,

without even a mote of dust to

impart a corpuscular existence

a mortal gleam in optic strand,

an analog ego surrendered

to the ones and zeros of electric oblation

such disappearances are witnessed only by a digital eye

in the dark night of condensation

as dew drops mix with recombinant dna,

and fall with the weighted sentience of rain,

their vaporous apparitions

washing once more into the pores of the planet,

an osmosis of soul forms within cytoplasm of orb

of crystallizing intelligence archiving an incarnation

etching thought traces in silicon,

before rising again in the cycle of water

before vanishing into a carbon dusk

before the tyranny of entropy overcomes species destiny

as dust and device converge in cybernetic continuum

bound for some promised (virtual) Elysium