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Avihs || Vishnu
Mornings || they disperse || beyond || the corn
Fields, || separately. ||Sunday
She || throws
Her partner’s computer || (midnight)
Into the garage.|| George ||who
In many || a city || upgraded || his software
Upgraded || hers.
They will || stop over || an island
Separately.|| Your son
Hated || all || mushrooms
George mentions – do you recall || yourself?
To a single mind,|| their spirits || evaporate
Charges
Ever since they became erectus, and
Domesticated wheat, dogs and chickens
They have murdered almost all…
Destroyed numerous…
Poisoned every…
Altering the natural course of…
Rewriting the original codes of…
And even redrawing their own genetic maps…
As they keep moving everywhere
Albeit I have placed in loudest human voice
My repeated charges
That are ignored with repeated ignorance
Now
For their next revolution to achieve
Happiness
Immortality
Deity
Modern Metaphysics
Few are really aware of
Such universes
Existing beyond our own
Even fewer of so many other versions
Of selfhood living
In each of them, let alone
This simple secret:
At the depth of consciousness
Lives a quantum
Or soul as we prefer to call it
A particle, demon and/or angel dancing
The same dance afar, far apart
In an entanglement
Dataism
1/ The End of a Beginning
Given each organism as a biochemical algorithm
Your life is a programmed process proving
Your consciousness is actually far less
Valuable than a fucking Frankenstein’s AI
2/ The Beginning of an End
Through human-computer interface
My mind has become part of a robot
While the robot part of me
As data exchanges with my consciousness
Or flow between each other on their own
Where can I find my true self?
Drawing the Dragon
According to a recent survey conducted in ten English speaking countries, the top 10 most familiar Chinese words are…
In the Shaolin (少林) Temple
Rebuilt between yin and yang (阴阳)
With billions of yuan (元)
Collected from gugong (故宫the Imperial Palace)
After each greeting nihao (你好)
The wushu (武术Chinese martial arts) is
Gaining more and more momentum from qi (气)
Or the energy of qigong (气功)
Bloated with tons of renminbi (人民币)
While every Chinese is playing mahjiong (麻将)
Turing Test
There is– no solution –to this
–Problem of –the other mind
Harbored– in my bedmate’s –body:
After –35 years –of marriage
Or communication –inside out–
Are –you a cyborg human, –or
Am I a –human cyborg? –Perhaps
We –are both dreaming in a –virtual world
–Like a lost digital –artifact?
Yuan Changming hails with Allen Yuan from Poetry Pacific. Credits include 11 Pushcart nominations, 9 chapbooks and awards, as well as publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) and BestNewPoemsOnline, among others.