from HEART ART by Frerderick Seidel

starts...

A man is masturbating his heart out,

Swingin in the hammock of the Internet.

He rocks back and forth, his cursor points

And selects. He swings between repetitive extremes

Among the come-ons in the chat rooms.

But finally he clicks on one

World Wide Web woman who cares.

and then in the middle...

This is the story about humans taking over

The country. New York is outside

His study while he works. Paris is outside.

Outside the window is Bologna.

He logs on. He gets up.

He sits down. A car alarm goes off

Yoi yoi yoi yoi and yips as it suddenly stops.

and then at the end...

[...]

Here in the eastern United States,

A man is masturbating his art out.

An Ice Age that acts hot

Only because of the greenhouse effect

Is the sort of personality.

Beneath the dome of the depleted ozone, they stay cold.

Mastadons are mating on the Internet

Over the bones of dinosaur nuclear arms,

Mating with their hands.

'A man is masturbating his art out' - he certainly is.