Instruction Manual for Child
Shankar Narayan
-lgorithm -rithm rior happened like child -configured act tric lies glassmelt -phor rhythm -less flatten your mother separated -separated separated -separated years is alien to kill its house to violence the boy the boy to force to break -self no one can see me is a uni- -head -out -out -mover kill only as in your name and are you would you you would like one |
here is the a here is the algo scrape sandal paste from body like Parvati make a war- who would love her no love -manual for robots is cub loop loop if then just to see how you re- see if you break always remembers silicon windows there are no real boys so many potential so many potential because orbits decay ellipsis by cosmic distances by tell you who tell you who to break some is on his knees is begging disturb my ritual naked verse that into a real boy a real boy but not too real else i must be a smile see the third eye opening warning warning you are warrior -structed is Ganesha one would raise you -one would love you |
this never your name you learn remain you un i am cruel to you an elephant how light hits grows nose in elec- is meta circuits differences loop loop hum into me -bot un- un un- un light- force the boy force the boy -thing you not him him let only you every sandgrain could turn without warning see the trident glittering with three fangs with with re of obstacles child be be if only some- if only some this never happened |
Originally published in Moss: Volume Four.
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