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Three Short Poems

Alicia Ostriker

January 24, 2023

ORACULAR: THE WOMAN IN THE ARMCHAIR SPEAKS

The beings after the Anthropocene will be formed of inorganic matter they will be not unfeeling they will study us the way we study the natural world they will have libraries and zoos stocked with us

those following them will be made of cloud SOME DAYS

Some days I feel I am turning to plastic We all are becoming inorganic the next stage for us sapiens for us experimental subjects EVENING IN PLAGUE TIME

We hand ourselves over to the media The media hands us over to profit

we are not what we were we will not be what we are

we are possessed we do not even cry out at the news

Alicia Ostriker


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