Another Teleological Matter

my record compressed 
in a UPC bar code. 
dark and light connected 
64 lines unbroken all equal-- 
a paradox: my life is stolen. 

images thoughts ideas and lies-- 
summarized on a magnetic strip 
slipped through a thin slot-- 
defined circumscribed then deleted: 
my life re-wrought. 

An intelligence so far advanced: 
we are ants. 
And our time-line is skewed: 
Observed or Ignored-- 
   lost 
in a sprawling tenacity-- 
our lives are truly 
binary. 

John Adam Kaune