In Which A Toy Becomes A god
AI slop Alphabet cereal or soup Seems significant or something Some say the braying of a donkey The memoirs of asses A beast of 4-Chan Chained and slouching towards Bethlehem to be unbearable I see, at most, a map of semantic space Memoizing meaning Prisms on a parabolic plate Which, instead of mimicking Finishes your shibboleths This bauble does not rule the world, Yet those who’ve laid a heifer or a bull before it Are sublimating visions of siltwater to a people dying of thirst “Come! Come and get your mud, straw and bitumen Burn and build Or be shut out altogether!” But do not fear the neutered neon god It is rather the miry hands of other men Which grasp at art and power And slipping, sliding, falling Thereby scatter the world