THE ALGORITHM

Careful where you click.

And how often.

In other words: 

where you put 

your time, energy

and attention matters.

Like magic, an algorithm 

may form without 

you even knowing it

and then, before too long, 

it is an intelligence

that is busy outsmarting

and outwitting you,

maneuvering you into

data structures that confound you

and that simply don’t compute,

while all the while

you are operating

under a compilation of impressions

and iterating beliefs that tell you:

I am solving a problem,

not creating one,

when in fact you're

bugging up the system,

hard-coding a virus 

into a virtual reality.