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| ***BIO*** Alfaro lives in Columbus, Ohio. His first collection of poetry is titled- real.m (Silenced Press, 2007). Check it out at www.silencedpress.com |
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| The Machine |
| by Alfaro |
| This is the machine
that answers your phone cooks your food washes your clothes records your voice, types. This is the machine that makes ice cream. This is the machine that made men fly. This is the machine that propels bullets. A tree leaves leaves made of sheet metal that replicate photosynthesis all along the hot black pavement wires course through the silver trunk Electricity imitates sap. The branches sway robotically. There is no wind. There is no life. There is a mechanical rustle. This is second nature. This is the machine that enslaves you. |
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| Aug. 2007 |
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