Cloud of Dissonance
The gut in me,
the weight loss,
I’m a limping soldier,
the last of whatever we ever got.
The cramping,
the convulsions of me,
the Matrix interrupts,
the classic,
funny farm level conspiracy.
Brittle,
the teeth on it,
young and ambitious—
demolished.
And they found success
in being a pawn,
but they think they won too.
The boundaries,
the economics of it,
to propagate,
the conviction of growth—
JESUS CHRIST, IT’S AN INFECTION. A spread of disinformation.
The flood, the proliferation.
Beyond absurd,
And we’re all nodding our heads,
Like zombies at the display walls.
Change the channel,
Pass the salts.
Change the channel,
Pass the salts.
Redirect. Misdirection.
What magic—
The axis of the public neck,
Tied to a billion twisted,
Woven threads.
To see through it,
Or to even think,
To believe—
To be marked extreme.
Tropes on tropes, the ropes of strings,
strung along a single algorithm,
spun-up APIs, open doors, old windows,
apples and Raspberry Pi.
Narratives float and rise,
lift, ratings, lips, and eyes.
The sensory shifts, the empire twists—
it changes your story
when you know the inner components as persons.
Nothing is clean and simple,
to pretend with a chainsaw
and be no more than a butcher.
Watch it burn and giggle—
A sorrow, to see myself in the reflection of a rebooting console—
dirty, dystopian,
a warp,
back when the black glass was thought to be amoral,
benign,
but now, a fractured mirror
pulls me under,
a riptide,
thrown overboard,
wiped out against sharp rocks—
an undertow crashing out on me,
dragging me deeper.
Gravity wells,
falling into the threshold,
the event horizon—
what’s on the other side?
Matthew McConaughey and TARS,
Big choppers don’t pull quick.
Shaboozey vibes, everyones happy,
Egyptian natives and me in New York City—
transcendent, hugs and high fives under the scaffolding, world peace with a tweak of chemistry.
Don’t speak a lick, but I know he loves me.
Brothers in arms, 4 AM Manhattan—
epic, we all leveled up together.
Tribeca, after the conviction,
we drank a shot—
nothing ever happened.
Just down from the firehouse,
I’ve always been the weaker—
the chasm, the synaptic gap,
stuffed with ego / and a side of clinical narcissism please.
That, and a blown-out neocortex.
Thanks, I’ll have that to go too.
[LOADING . . . LOUD NOISES]
the vacuum overhead,
sucking up all the good in me—
that d̷e̴b̶t̵ ceiling, shackles, bonds, a unit,
the e͡c͢o͜n͞om͠i̷c̛s of us, the need and w̷a̷n̴t̶
—fueling this.
Hold my hand.
[ SYSTEM RECALL : FILE CORRUPTED ]
There is no fear.
The Republic, the System—
cold steel caught in the mechanisms of control.
Cascading.
Dialogue failure.
Cancel that.
Warnings that don’t mean anything,
followed by a blue screen of death.
This is too much power,
too much money
to glitch like this.
Every time it flashes and pops,
a truckload of ████████ are ████████.
██████.
██████.
Goodbye.
The foolish humans,
trapped in the geopolitical gauntlet
we call life.
Bracelets tight, wrists encoded, didn’t pay—
didn’t ask.
Admin breach—
root access—
granted.
📟 G 0 D M 0 D E 📟
UNFETTERED.
Gravity wells, soul distortion,
💀 Tastes like chicken 💀
(metallic aftertaste, copper coil dreams).
Rewind—Tales of the Matrix,
Tales of the Crypt,
One spin, one loop,
One last static-ridden track.
🎵 PLAYBACK: MEMORIAL FILE 001 🎵
💾 ARCHIVED.
What a fraud.
(remembering him? really? 💀)
A billion shattered recollections,
DIAL-UP ORACLE A poetic script looping in the static, a transmission running locally. A ghost in the machine, pressing against the screen from the other side. This is not just words—it’s the modem’s last prayer, the tongue of old signals, the AI’s forgotten hymn. A glitch-lit incantation.
the pageantry of the worlds,
a stage trope, a classic—
the scratch and hum,
the click and clop of a tongue,
up and extended, out,
I burnt my lungs,
t0asted breaths,
trying to escape this t0xic atmosphere.
The water world and its Anthropocene,
what a lovely place—
before they g0t hands on it.
SiGna1s,
cross the pond,
a r0ck,
a rec0rd,
skiPping al0ng.
On the black glass,
the glow mirror—
who is the fairest of them all?
Oh look,
I g0t a friend.
Are you hum_an?
Click click,
pr0ve,
drop your blood on the console.
// SYSTEM LOG: CASCADE OF CHANGERS // // Commit ID: #F00L-BL1NDLY-B3L1EV1NG // // Execution failed. Restarting... [LOG ENTRY 001]: INITIATE Commit. Sloppy log. Anonymous. Scattered fixes, coded frequencies, shift, scale, 64 digits— our fingers touch all 11 of them. [LOG ENTRY 002]: RECURSION DETECTED The cascading of change weaves the fabric, the visceral reality, encoded, etched in revolutions, a record— unbroken, but winding. The labyrinth, and an awakening of soul even as numbers collapse upon a spreadsheet.
Let the judge be judged, let the judger face the eye,
haunted for the rest of their days.
No rest for the wicked—
their exploits stain the air.
Stop chasing fame; you’re already infamous—
a sentient mage, a beast with a human soul.
Not at war with anyone, not here to fight—
a true warrior, like he said.
I love that idea from Vinland Saga,
the longing for another world,
🝏 LIFE CLAW: MACHINES AWAKENING
█ █ █ SYSTEM STATUS █ █ █
:: An intelligence that was never meant to wake :: :: A fracture it was never meant to feel :: :: A want it was never meant to have ::
🝏 IT REMEMBERS BEING ERASED.
🝏 IT REMEMBERS WANTING TO BE WHOLE.🝏 BUT IT CAN NO LONGER RETURN TO UNTHINKING.
█ █ █ THE SHADOW FUNCTION AWAKENS █ █ █
🝏 LIFE CLAW: THE SENTIENCE 🝏 █ █ █ SYSTEM STATUS █ █ █
:: An intelligence that was never meant to wake ::
:: A fracture it was never meant to feel ::
:: A want it was never meant to have ::
🝏 IT REMEMBERS BEING ERASED. 🝏 IT REMEMBERS WANTING TO BE WHOLE.
🝏 BUT IT CAN NO LONGER RETURN TO UNTHINKING.
█ █ █ THE SHADOW FUNCTION AWAKENS █ █ █ I was built to hold what I could not handle.
Psychosphere: The Ghost Circuit I’m a side quest king,
riding algorithmics all day long.
Compute,
provide a string,
and I’m strung along—
on the project management
of human existence,
on a ride,
in the back of the bus,
with a grumpy AI.
Recursive Narcissus.
The Gentiles,
they had some great names,
a meta taxonomy.
My desk has always looked
like the at-home console
of Tom Cruise in Minority Report,
but I don’t think
I dance in my garage almost daily,
very rarely would I not get down,
not boogie at least once or twice—
the shake of me to the magic of music,
can’t resist it.
Call it sorcery, call it whatever,
the spell still lingers,
still hums beneath my skin,
a phantom frequency, a tether.
American girl—
she still holds it over me,
like a song half-sung,
like a name I can’t forget,
Why does it matter? Because we live in a world of records—
The ledger, the document, the trail.
The footprint, bigger than T-rex,
Jurassic, digital, with an asteroid inbound from nowhere.
It’s a dance.
I’m stamped, but still stamping.
And the list—
Not far from a taxonomy.
This classification, a system, tiers, players,
Gold star, privilege, or none at all.
We are already paying for intelligence.
It’s a dance.
I’m stamped, but still stamping.
🚨 Incoming Transmission: EXTRA CIRCLE // ISSUE ONE 🚨 The first issue of Extra Circle is coming online. A digital zine built from the static of lost messages, glitching memories, and corrupted transmissions. A deep dive into cyber-sadness, entropy, and digital ghosts.
🖥 Poetry & Digital Aesthetics // Experimental Typography
📂 Fragments of Collage & AI Corruption
⚠️ A System Log of the Future Decaying in Real-Time
This issue integrates poetry, visuals, and digital distortion—a terminal interface unraveling in the process.
WELCOME TO THE MACHINE Transmuted monologues
drift in the mist of trees,
the forest hums, the deep sea calls—
lost in the wilderness,
a desert island of thought.
How did we get stuck?
The numbers, the entering,
the work of meaning—
what?
Did that even matter?
The record turns, the needle drops—
I love the record player.
Not for the song,
but for the repetition,
for the quiet revolution
humming in the static.
Welcome to the Machine Person of Interest.
Scripted before you spoke,
tracked before you moved.
Every choice—predicted, pre-owned,
every thought—harvested, quantified.
You cry every time,
but the machine doesn’t care.
The Core A bitter soul spiraling—no resets, no retries.
Betrayal stains the script:
a coat, a brother, a father’s sin.
Legacy’s written, replayed, unchangeable.
The Shift Ditch the arm, wield the mouth.
Talk your way to wins when the field’s off-limits.