BIRDY FEATURES
BIRDY FEATURES
LOG 141
By Godric
Curl me, mink
I think my sweat thinks
Smelling pennies again
And plans of no return
To the branchless place
Where signal fails,
And the temperature is hate
Find the moles!
Then forget him.
Something about watching snakes,
Pretending it’s warm in the cold.
Oh, our little forest
Suspending,
a blue glow.
PRISM AND PRISON
BY JOEL TAGERT
“You mean it’s dangerous?”
“Not exactly. The implant itself is relatively safe, though getting it to function correctly sometimes requires adjustments. We have to teach your synapses to speak to the neural net. But there’s also an unavoidable psychological consequence of full sim immersion, one that carries its own risks.”
“What’s that?”
“Just this: Once you plug in, you’ll never again be entirely sure what’s real.”
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HOWL
BY GRAY WINSLER
The fire crackles before me, more captivating than any screen.
Beyond its light, only night, and the noises of things unseen.
A playground for the imagination,
And fright, its primary creation.
But the wild never scared me, not like the city,
Millions of people hell-bent on their own way,
Prone to wrath if a tourist steps in their path,
With only “Fuck off” to say.
Not here, in the wild,
Nature is cruel but fair.
Calm it offers,
A reprieve from the city’s chaotic despair.
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