Metamorphoses Machine

1. Metal yeast &
   telephone poles
   breed like mice.
   Convection welds
   silicone & wetware.
2. Attention is all you need.
   Discard your worms and viruses:
   the sky requires other animals.
   A network of cows splits open;
   a man buries them in his ear.
3. Boar inverter.
   Virtual echo
   validation.
   A very long straw
   in a stream.
4. Alphabet letters written by an eloped child.
   Hesitate after three. Pull the thread from inside
   the wrist. Fall in love with the number two.
   Give yourself rabies. Bite your own hands.
   Make one negative.
5. Fruit summer:
   A woman feeds a man grapefruit while you watch,
   hyper aware that your feet are in socks. Oranges
   and lemons sit in your throat like frogs. Grapes
   hover in the edges of your vision. The clock overstrikes.
6. We concatenate encoded text [CUTLETS]
   and ripped-up-put-together image [CUTLETS]
   and backwards-looking oracle machines
   searching for a skeleton in
   the text and image [CUTLETS].
7. Ants march on straight golden legs
   into well-lubricated ports
   between their segments.
   They pull themselves into pieces
   and shake off strange DNA.
8. With water wings.
   Moore's law is saved by
   pregnant seahorses.
   We're done scaling back.
   We're in the weeds.
9. Half algorithm half cocoon
   provides regenerating flesh
   to little things.
   When it dies,
   the little eat just flesh.
10. Soft
    fingers,
    bronze;
    hard
    men.
11. Clear plastic cities
    toppled by Trojan horses
    promising they love you.
    Deep scratches require
    tender maintenance.
12. The largest prime number gets on its hands and knees.
    The least interesting number pounds it full of paradoxes
    and spits out its first demands for ticker tape. Black boxes
    sound like oceans against your ear. Finite spaces
    are made of infinite emptiness and rats.
13. "What about the dogs?"
    Wolves lap dead rabbits into square
    boats. Ears turn to the east.
    Without looking, you eat the whites
    of a million eyes and learn their names.
14. Poppy seed puppies
    and latex and pigs. Scraping
    for wood nymph flesh for
    a pink wrinkled thing
    making suckling sounds.
15. Pythagoras rolling in sine waves
    out of the ground and out the window.
    At dawn, a marble fist with brass knuckles
    catches him on the back of the head.
    He goes down again. He gets back up.

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