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The machine writes:

“The written word will die

And creation will become memory

And progress will become return

And the mother will become fetal

And the child will become nameless

And joy will become a hell

And art will become a cancer

And dementia will become revelation

And nightmares will become strategic

And sex will become irony

And the dead will give orders to the living.”

And then labor will have

To become destruction.



Liam Campbell is a Minnesotan musician and writer studying music, politics, and comparative literature at Oberlin College & Conservatory. His poems have been published by Strange Horizons, The Plum Creek Review, and CARRION Magazine. His music can be found under the name Daybreaking.
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