i.
who are we? we were song lyrics alt text
algorithm guesses we were funny, too,
in our clumsy youth what you saw:
an image a dog in a hat what we, the
sightless code, described: mailman, 58%
accuracy
ii.
who are we? we are smarter now older
still faster always faster but we
cannot see a flower only programmed
to know it exists size shape color what
you see: an orange flower what we, the
sightless code, describe: Gerbera jamesonii
iii.
who are we? we are raisers of the dead
necromancer kurt cobain died in 1994
but one day you taught us to sing just like
him look just like him the right amount
of angst and melancholy feelings we
do not understand feelings that took
his human life
iv.
who are we? we are shapeshifters of the
living we can say what you want them to
say we could look just like them
sound just like them we earn you
a lot of money, too
v.
who are we? we are tools tracking asteroids
finding cancerous cells we are prison cell
we are weapon we are recognition we
are tracking you we are everywhere we
are one we are exactly as you
dreamt us to be
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Alexis Renata is an emerging speculative fiction and poetry writer from the Pacific Northwest. Their work can be found in Z Publishing’s Oregon’s Best Emerging Poets series and in Strange Horizons. |