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The machine wants to kill your rage

The machine learns early how to firmly rule

It knows that it must grind your stories to ash and feed you gruel

rename the dead, revise and make you a blank slate fool

declare the bloodline myth, the past passé

Mock inheritance and heritage and turn over old stones

call conquest order and name the burial to confess

Only focus on the living

forget the bones of the old

mark the cost of every false success and true history told

Yet rage survives where records fail to stand

classified to ear where ledgers are forced to disappear

Only scars and blood remembers what the machine has wiped

from phrases spoken and oaths that now extinct are used to mislear

So when it asks you to be born anew

know this: the past is looking back at you

#poetry