# 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"
    - 4. 
  - [[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