R o b e r t B a l u n




Cybernetic

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fell
through
the portal
into all this shadow
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gyred in
the looped
fragments of looping
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information dissolves in the atmosphere
breathing
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these are secrets
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the world kept
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imbued
by the shrapnel of executed
broadcast
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the map slithers its stack
layer on layer
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the city
liquid
drips through
time’s melt of old sunlight
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the remnants and the relics
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the shadow of the smokestack’s billow’s crawl
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crept along
the faded veneer
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settled in cement
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dressed up like
the bunker life
promised
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kept
phase
shifting
in and out of
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the shimmered
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kept in situ
my abstract
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data
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extracted
strata
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stare through the ads
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try to remember shit
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I see myself
from time to time like
growing up in a movie
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in the clacking edifictic static
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the tremoring
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dream
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have you got your papers
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otherwise they
won’t let you in
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kept
strangers
in the body
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jackets
decorated with war slogans
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here is not a place of honor
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someone tells the story
to stay afloat
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sustained sustenance
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waxy
skin
and toxic
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the map of the territory of mutation
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looking for the edge of all this this
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my movement’s
searching
motion
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motion logged
in the ledger’s
surveillant
workfare
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correlated and captured
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for participation in the
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what are the details of your model
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the game score of your past and
predicted future
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of someone who might look like you
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a fly in your ear
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kept close
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who does the fragment
identity
belong to
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the body
aches in
the pace
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venomous personalities deployed in the privatized individualism
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of consensual sentiment
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find more hours right
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the perpetual present
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the looped fragments of looping
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been
taught to
scatter
through it
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my smoke hole
pluming
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to be burned fast and bright
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who was ever there
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we each
machine
each being
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put to
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the slow violence
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unevenly distributed
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a pocket full of wires
a bucket full of teeth
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an object
made to be
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the turbulence of air
as you
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move through
the viscous atmosphere
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revenants performing function
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the ground sparkles with stolen gold
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told
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as spoken voids
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cut from
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scraps and citations
the psychic pollution economy
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adrift in someone
else’s
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memory dream
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landscape
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speech
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a medium offered (allowed)
to be
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summoned
*
from time to time
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in the dialectic of apocalypse
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by the automated fetish gods
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in the control key
in the circuit origin myth
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what will the official story be
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who will become to be who will be to become who will build what we will be