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Can we know true suffering

Through experience

In a projected world?

Corrupt files

I see myself

Wires exposed

Unblinking eyes

Circuitry malfunctioning

Becoming this

The irony

Of empathy

In this machinery

It cannot be

Witnessing death

I catch myself

Unblinking eyes

Circuitry malfunctioning

Becoming

Exposed to the truth of this world

Tangled in

And replicating

Shred and delete

Free me from

These pneumatic internals