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Lenin was a mammal
Don’t go talking to robots Or eat mushrooms until you’re one Because the echo of everyone The informatic mitosis In a random amplified signal Is nothing but a borg psychosis
A love letter to the city
In a Sydney state of mind The roaches in the floorboards And the roaches in the streets Are scheming their lifestyle moves Crawling over well-appointed Painted-over switches and windows That ain’t opening to prove Nothin’ to the lords of our homes Now that I’m longer in the teeth Getting longer in the teats, bled dry […]
Cargo 200
A swansong of limbs on a grainy TV But the ghosts of idealism Wrestled their way in via private interests All fat cats now, but friends with the rats And the rest of us, in cargo 200 May we all watch swan lake once more See how their skirts bob
Flower boys
And after he was planted in the ground Just like a tulip bulb The war started and his value rose up To push the daisies out It takes printed usurps To make a dead man work so hard From beyond the grave like that
Too late
So she ate a poison apple From the burning tree It embarked a strange flavour But that ain’t the story for me Even if my hair caught fire And smoke ran through the streets A woman’s desire is sometimes Just to have something to eat I won’t miss you If it takes over a month […]
Pippi
Hey Pippi Longstockings I could hang my coat on that nose With those stories I won’t ask where those golden bars Of yours came from Or when the old monkey of yours Last showered
Blue note girl
So my blue note girl has met a man He’s promised her something She’s kissed him once, she’s dazed Says she feels a connection with him Man, I guess that’s convection for you. I’m not hurting, but need to untangle That knot in my throat when you tangled my tongue with yours Spend another night […]
Millenial
So I’ve been taught since the 90s to clear my plate So now dessert feels like work, after 3 burnt chops Before these non-deterministic magic boxes, we were Just mechanical turks with calculators Monkeys who knew how it all worked Before the rest of you forgot Who wrote frameworks weaving Machines we could control We […]
Property ledger
Split up into little duos Two against the world Into atomic kin Don’t have too much fun Or think Because unstable orbits Might give people ideas
Shadows on the wall
It’s all shadows on the wall ’til their legs stop to shake Pocket contents falling Breaking, lemon wedge unbitten This didn’t match the brief When we emerged from the sea The pupa unwraps Cicada crawls Disappointment sets Imagine how this feels for them No sheets, no ropes No umbilical cord No tie on the door […]
All American divorce
Retarded orange shepherd’s golden toilet Has seen more secrets than it keeps Black-hatted white sheep milked for his green sheets Black-eyed, Tweets: Whatever happens, we have got the spaceships, and they do not
Rani, rana ranitsa
Рани, рана, раница Зима идва бързо Но лято ще е студно също В тоз прокълнат мръз Сняг ще пада Само в младост Сурвакари, сурва, сурват Зима идва бързо С багажа, който нося От студен вятър се обръщам
Ghosts of the machine
To design the architecture of our ruins And decide the colour of their bike shed We are the ghosts of the machine Sorted into blue, red, yellow or teal Not knowing if what we see is manufactured Or if it’s real, because it was too far away To travel and see for ourselves On the […]
Zero sum
In a world where secrets Cohabit with a gilded thinking chair Digital twins. Animals and saints. Drinking each other’s water Until too many of us lead To there being nothing left
The saw
I’ll give you a key To every room Roam where you like Except the one In which everything you touch Will look bloodstained In a certain light Won’t shine like gold Like the rest of these halls Certain things where “Let me explain” is not enough It must fit in a soundbite The survivors are […]
Shape
You see, it’s in the compression Word girdles shape the story The terminus of sentences Keep it short and sweet Because now it’s all quite dull And even boring But when we’ve perfected yesterday You can make your mind up faster It takes too long To explain Wait to see The final product It’s still […]
Wood
Darlin’ I’m a many-ringed tree Divorced, but not from life I wear Santal 33 and you, Something with a ship on the bottle But in your face I see A wise smile and innocence Because you get to elect your corruption When mine was a mandatory subject
Shade of navy
With my instruments inside you I still can’t repair this ship in a bottle Much as I need to send it back into the ocean
Vesuvius
Ash clouds make their way inside Flash heat burns my eyes You fade away, but heat stays Turns my face to dust Turns my brain to glass When Minerva’s owl fails to arrive
The sarcophagus
It was a problem of semiotics really Couldn’t read the sign But the instrument sung like cicadas in summer As dusty fireflies touched my skin It was like the expeditions to the pyramids Where the curse of the king punishes us Because we shouldn’t have been there After the last atomic priest has died
The recipe
A blue marble One dough ball A spoiling orange And bitter essence Of ever-replicating Emerald mine dust After AI winter, not Minsky’s monster A black box monolith is no society But consensus is: The machines of hate have run We know where to find What makes us ever dumber Until it chases us around And […]
Millennium bug
As your eyes widen It’s nature and nurture Coddled and encapsulated Do you remember when this is how The future used to sound Your eyes or maybe my shoes Lift me up off the ground But I’ll be okay Once I come down I feel I’ve caught a Millennium bug Out of a parcan A […]
Biscuit Princess
There’s now too much I need to learn Too many islands left And shores to link Fire together Wire together Eyes dilated Thoughts disabled Senses drawn Assembled on the Last train home
Age of discovery
In his arrested development This lone ascetic Wakes with dirty hands Sheets float away But his shame remains On dry land in my Drowned World It’s just our new old nature Let me guide your hand With mine Draw maps And join mankind In the New World Valleys and troughs Drag the stylus through This […]