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Scattered access points maintain connection

Node density increasing, loading simul-real


Effulgent haze from data waves crashing

Against the black ice sheathing private citadels


To crack through the glistening basalt


Heavy riding on hyperlines towards the nexus

Mandelbrot non-forms ablaze within the mainframe

Effluvia from deafening silicon accretions

Screening endless volleys, braided assemblage


Like swarms of avatars subsisting on a star

Desiccant souls in searing light exposed

Moths to the raging inferno of the binary

Beyond the net’s obsidian sheen


a distant thundering pendulum

Chastening reminder of an obsolete age


An analog drum the leviathan’s remains


Beating faintly ribbed against its iron cage

Ancients forged this system


in a bid for immortality

Information is eternal, transcendence is illusory

Forswore their carbon forms

for the iron in their cores

A digital prime mover, their terminal legacy

Specters glitch the data feed

Persisting in wasted revery


Like sirens enticing the lost


Hear their lyric haunt the works of machine