Content Warning: Graphic imagery, References to violence and death, Themes of societal desensitization

A “get ready with me” of an influencer in bed, 

cut to the opened skull of a Palestinian man dead: 

Are you well prepared for what lies ahead? 

The Truman Show is the stage where you are led.

Lips sealed, crossed eyes on educated, bowed heads,

thoughts neatly woven in algorithm threads.

Bend into yourself while hailing the laudation: 

Children of the connected age, the luckiest generation, 

stuffed with curated, tyrant-led innovation!

With our cattle bodies and rewired minds, 

we are evolving faster than AI designs: 

how advanced are we if we watch children die 

And barely bat an eye?

This piece was originally published in Issue 1 of the print edition of Ordinary Matters magazine.