ljidol; Solvitur ambulando
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rosa, the robot
she has seen machines
churning waves of metal
burning skies until skies were black
she fixes
cars-she unmuffles mufflers
attaches
shiny
wheels
over real wheels
make it louder-replace
ears-add muffler
factories thicken
urban gravy-rosa
applies spikes
bare knuckle tires
unmuffles mufflers
applies garbage bag
to headlight
the future is bright
chime in her ear-she
can't hear never fixed
that part
she watches cars become men
humping each other for oil slick
nothing sick-these are all american
manufactured biomechanical reality

she has seen machines
churning waves of metal
burning skies until skies were black
she fixes
cars-she unmuffles mufflers
attaches
shiny
wheels
over real wheels
make it louder-replace
ears-add muffler
factories thicken
urban gravy-rosa
applies spikes
bare knuckle tires
unmuffles mufflers
applies garbage bag
to headlight
the future is bright
chime in her ear-she
can't hear never fixed
that part
she watches cars become men
humping each other for oil slick
nothing sick-these are all american
manufactured biomechanical reality

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Date: 2019-11-16 11:53 pm (UTC)urban gravy" - it's such a great image.
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Date: 2019-11-17 08:34 am (UTC)It really fits this poem, and the worldview of this robot doing such repetative maintenance and modifications that don't always make sense but are part of the new world spiralling forward into more and more broken places.
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Date: 2019-11-18 06:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-18 10:48 am (UTC)So many images, such a vivid world created in such a few choice words.
Very well done!
There was one photo that had me stumped for a few seconds trying to figure out what creatures had left their discarded cocoons en masse like that.