Imperfect Offerings · Volume 3

POETRY ARCHIVE / 03

Destiny

Four poems from Imperfect Offerings, Vol. 3: Destiny.

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A human figure overlaid with the green pathways of a circuit board

POEM / 01

Evolve

From fins to limbs,To techno hymns,The cyber gods will sing.

From digital dawn,To nano spawn,The bio death will ring.

From digital sleep,To electric sheep,The cyber gods take wing.

From singular sight,To data byte,The coded human string.

© R. D. FletcherImperfect Offerings, Vol. 3: Destiny

A monochrome portrait overlaid with luminous digital interfaces and diagrams

POEM / 02

Discovery

...And you may find yourselfIn this digital map of scenes,A human app in the AI trap,Designed for data-daze dreams.

And you may find yourself,In this algo map of schemes,Risible might of cyber light,In streams of circuit screams.

And you may find yourself...

© R. D. FletcherImperfect Offerings, Vol. 3: Destiny

A shadowed human face fragmented by luminous green streams of digital code

POEM / 03

Slipstream

I am fragmented, obliterated,Shattered and scattered in data hell;The centre streams, its whispered yell,The sucking sound of cyber sell.

Mindlessly drifting in digital currents,I sink in a whirlpool of programmed merchants;In the backwash and eddies of A.I. might,I drown in a river of digitized fright.

© R. D. FletcherImperfect Offerings, Vol. 3: Destiny

A close view of a blue eye overlaid with lines of computer code

POEM / 04

Mission Critical

Range, change, corporate beat,The company call is cast;Accelerate to obsolete,Your survival will not last.

Millennium tools, data force,Compete, concede, consign;You will not stay the sacred course,If you do not toe the line.

Range, change, corporate lie,The company call is cruel;Principals cry, gurus all vie,System the only rule.

© R. D. FletcherImperfect Offerings, Vol. 3: Destiny

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