loved and abandoned
stuffed animals on a wharf bench
a childhood gone
a broken haiku for abandoned toys
loved and abandoned
stuffed animals on a wharf bench
a childhood gone
loved and abandoned
stuffed animals on a wharf bench
a childhood gone
the river
it
takes
but
also
it
gives
don’t want life behind the paywall anymore, don’t want to nickel and dime my soul in the name of distraction masking itself as relaxation
maybe it’s working on a 110-year-old steam-powered memory machine — but I want to be able to cast my eye, reach out and set my hands upon tangible and touchable Life
not manufactured by an accelerated learning enrolled AI
by an algorithm that has no heart to feel rhythm and language — some facsimile of existence programmed by a programmed sociopath
//
back to what’s real
can’t hack a typewriter or a pen to paper, don’t want to be the tool of what was supposed to be a tool
I see the faces of God down on the river, don’t need to pray to the ghost in the machine
to reach out to me