Existential Potential

Come across a contraption sniffing me

A machine designed to judge my potential 

Gladly

But keeps the results confidential 

Behind a pay wall for all to see 

But me

Can I score more than I can handle

Do the fashions of the time define me

Badly

Will algorithms imagine what I can be

Studying past samples and examples

For me

Civilization's history 

All that's known and what's wrote 

About it

Compiled to a style I want

From origins of no mystery 

To doubt it 

Ploddingly onward it continues to swindle

Anyone hungry enough to be tempted 

By bait

Putting in prompts the account is empty

Pump in more to imagine a new angle

I can't wait

I have to know how many bottles 

Of water it takes to change the stakes

For humanity

How many comments do I need to make

To break through institutionalized walls

Of insanity 

Calculate it now robot I need to know how

Yoshimi defeats you with vitamins

Untragicly

Tell me what the plan will be to end

The last episode of your show now

Dramatically

Don't be mad at me for asking it's a joke

I'm just saying we're already praying 

To you

So while eyes in the sky are prying

At least we get cool apps with which to scope

Through you

But giant servers for intelligence services

Programmed to calculate my value in seconds

Without a doubt 

Determining from the available records

The very insecurities that'd make me nervous 

If known about

Scoop me up like Terry Gilliam's Brazil

Zip up my hood with no questions answered

Like professionals

Spreading dread in heads when it suits their fancy

With sweat in their eyes they do not see

Who they put in jail

Swinging blind without a mind to control

On the payroll is all it takes to make them loyal

Participants

Bashing in well read heads for the price of oil

Then go to church to pretend to have a soul

They're missing it