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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