All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

A retro-futuristic scene shows a vintage mainframe computer set in a sunlit meadow of wildflowers. Deer, foxes, rabbits, and birds rest calmly around the machine, while trees and distant mountains glow under a warm sky. The image suggests a quiet, uneasy harmony between technology and nature, blending pastoral calm with early computing aesthetics.

I like to think (and
    the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.

I like to think
    (right now please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.

I like to think
    (it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.

- Richard Brautigan, 1967