Poetry of Issue #8        Page 13

The new metropolis

Google and Amazon and their ilk have created likeness of…
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human drones going about being mastered by their robot overlords
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artificial intelligence the new intellect
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100 of hours of effort each week
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Mothers slaving over a keyboard
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mother mother baby needs a bottle
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the cognitive sweat shops of today land
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neural networks massaging data and solutions round-the-clock
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time of the essence, essence is now time
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workers running to and fro for fulfillment
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Fritz Lang’s creation turned into an ugly reality
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(trailer for metropolis
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/?ref_=vi_tt_i_tt_ov_vi)