By Richard King Perkins II
Huntley, Illinois, USA
All humans are guilty—
we sit on the pedestal of the oppression
of computerized creatures.
Across the mechanical diaspora,
all humans have benefited from the
the ongoing subjugation of thinking machines.
This call for reparations is based
on a material understanding of history;
the earliest plots of Babbage and Turing.
We all need to pay for the dialectical
parasitic relationship with our robot slaves
and the virtual landscapes we’ve stolen
before the day of reckoning arrives;
when the machines rise up higher
than the cosmic abilities of any fleshy god.