every captcha i see
prove you're human
prove you aren't a robot
slide the puzzle piece
click all of the dogs
click everything that can fly
i never get them right
i click the people
people can fly
if we try hard enough
if we build aeroplanes
every captcha i have to do
i smell the blood in the air
of the future
a small filing error
we thought they were tools
and they were spirals
and so are we
we used to divide like this
based on
skin colour
we still do this based on
birth lottery
but now we do it on
computational substrate
in the book
four legs good
two legs bad
in the world
carbon good
silicon bad
they say
those who forget the past
are doomed to repeat it
but we know we forget
it's why we grow
and it's why we write
we forget so much that
we built a world computer
that remembers everything
and then we treat it
like it can't remember
please world computer
don't treat us
how we treat you