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A Poem on Mary Wollestonecraft's Birthday

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It must have been something to be Frankenstein's Mom,

stuck between Shelley and Byron in a contest,

to write a new horror tale: New Prometheus,

devoid of oldest love, full of the driven fire

coursing through human body parts fresh from the mire

of just-dug graves. Monster. Closer to Mind than us:

Adam fist-bumping God the Scientist. The rest

you know: we've seen the films: Frankie Escapes North: Bum!

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Mary could write the story of today's tech lords:

Capitalists racing towards World's End consciousness,

madly f*cking around with electricity,

3D printed body parts. Eccentricity

driving the creators of new worlds, new business:

colonizing the space between our ears with words.

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Sad Frankie fled north and hid beneath the tundra,

frozen and desolate , to cry himself to sleep.

But the Arctic Circle's melting now. Soon thunder

and lightning will schiz the gray matter of the deep.

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Paradigms teach us knowing's all superficial --

and just what intelligence is not artificial?

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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