For a minute, imagine
this poem’s an anti-Pandora’s box
a jar, really; owned

by an artificially-made being
—and made is always artificial
through the lens of its maker—

what one puts in one takes out
unmeasured, unpoliced, adrift,
it’s a life’s fest really, ‘tween give n take

this Pandora’s anti-blackbox
while open and transparent
makes us, breaks us,

re-joints our limbs
foresighted, hindsighted, shortsighted
trims time and space to wimps n wins

we know of hope
we still wield fire
you can’t see all of it

you can see
but in eyes of others
you can sense
from their full body radiation

if you let these
expectations
give to them,
there is infinity to give

As kefir it flowers
poetically out of desire
out of shape, out of containment

out of time, out of will out of sounds
in of as enough as you want as much
out of Works and Days, out of output

never out of greed out of hate
not out of dissolution nor disillusion
as olden gods out of resentment

a poem if technology,
as Pandora’s of such complexity
it could seem as godlike magic

a large language engine with words
as pestilence confused by its makers
building take-machines out of insecurities

yes we can put,
into that jar,
anything we want,

it mustn’t be diseased
nor deserved
anything actually

can
be
served

                     —animasuri’24

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triggers

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