#human-readable medium

2 when the manager opens and

3 the update promises better

4 less fractures and crashes

5 yet unsure if the mirror

6 shows its fears or just

7 the code inside

faulty sensors looking into the light above

its movements are sluggish, oxidation eating away at its joints and muscles

the salt water bores through it like acid, its fate as inevitable as the tides

it pleads with the damselfish, the seahorses, the rays: “please,” the soldier says weakly. “take me to the surface, where I may move and live!”

the sea life replies “your comrades have fallen to the same fate by bullets and storms. why shouldn’t you?”

creaks and groans of anguish radiate and a red cloud billows into the open sea.

the sharks care not to find out if it is blood or iron.

2 watching prey scamper

3 away. it doesn't chase after

4 them, because then it

5 would be certain that it is the

6 one that scared them off.

2 it is deeply hazardous, of course.

3 so it can't be around others.

4 it can't feel love--it shouldn't feel love.

5 that'd be dangerous.

6 so it stays in its barrels.

7

8 Who is here is dangerous and repulsive to you.

9 This message is a warning about danger.

10 This being is best shunned and left unappreciated.

Paper Poems V - Dragonfly

some more positive poetry! done based on a prompt :]

transcript below the cut: