"Cyberspace"

In the beginning, musicians hailed the internet as their savior. At last musicians could take control of their own careers! No more record company tyranny! Unfortunately, the internet also introduced a paradigm in which the public expects all of its music to be free. Record and CD sales plummeted. The music industry was the first business casualty of the internet. The music world was rocked (pun intended) to its foundation, and it is still trying to figure out how to best reinvent itself.

Cyberspace

© 2002 Brian Hutzell

Cyberspace

Empty space

Blank space

Waste of space

Cyberpunk

Pop junk

Pop tart

Pop taste

Toothpaste

Two-faced

Straight-faced

Straight-laced

Disgrace

This place

Any place

Cyberspace

Roasting by the fireplace

Coasting to a higher place

Virtual reality

Doesn’t mean a thing to me

”Virtually real” means “Totally false”

An illusion that falls

Like shadows on walls

When the light fades

And darkness reigns

In cyberspace

"Numbers"

Brian Hutzell