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Man-machine

Paralyzed

By eyes that gleam

In vicious luminosity

Glint of chrome

Formaldehyde

And ozone

Bio-transformation

Slip the needle in

Narcotic hush to calm your trepidations

The sense awash

In vaporous information

We'll pluck out your eyes

To bring new vision

Divine

Consciousness liquefied

Extracted with precision

A small price

To pay

To end

The pain

Of your condition

Let it begin:

Scalpel pirouettes

In deft abominations

Red landscapes

Carved with reverence

To mark your pilgrimage

To the holy land of the post-human

Voyager

Catatonic voyeur

Inept omniscience

Another crippled god

In phantom creation

And when you've reached the end

You'll bear witness

To the new leviathan

Thriving in the void of consciousness

The liminal spaces

Between the real and the imagined

Sublime, lay down your mind

Immanentize the new aeon