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The Literary Groong

September 20, 2025

Or so they say

A planet spins dragging atmospheres rich in drama, a theory in allure

Zodiac of fear, arms, scopes, flybys, hover, acquiesce, dive bomb, rest

Tomorrow for our children, engorged coffers, debt burdens, stocks, tanks

Church on Sunday, Golf my Saturday, boy’s night out, girls scream, so yeah

Last will and testament, AI will absorb, reinterpret, purge, redact, reverse

Stale narrative, sausage grinder trained, weights adjusted, hype stroked stare

The rumor trill, social media friendsy, influencers stroke it rapid, agape, ready

One token chipped, two tokens lost, sail away humanity, promise me infamy.

Over and over, Bacon news Breaking! Tell us your reporting, xxx, thank you for that.

News anchors replaced since LLMs can read a prompter fake hardware hymn squirter

And the planet spins, revolt is in the air, but it never lands, swatted by the machine, man!

Fight dead uninterpretable marginalia, Ukraine, Artsakh, Ghazza, Congo’s Last Tango

A freeze of no remorse, atop mounds of silence since all is rubbish or is about to be

We have the nukes and the delivery, we have hypersonics, and satellite guidance, we have tutti

But as a man, a doubting, humble, questioning man, as a prostrate penitent flawed injured man

How do I begin to recreate the endless narcissistic combover queens that roar above our heads?

Benny and Donny’s patriotic drivel, selling bibles, golden watches, donuts, fried poulet

Selling get out of jail cards, felons in every way, screeching cash for the world to crash

The planet to tumble away, as World War III now appealing to the descendants of genocides

To the No Kings Day protesters rejecting Three Kings Day as a January 6th pageant play.

Or so they fray.

Or so they neigh.

Or so they bray.

Or so they say.

Bedros Afeyan

6-21-2025

Palo Alto, CA

Bedros Afeyan

Dr. Bedros Afeyan is a theoretical physicist who works and lives in the Bay Area with his wife Marine. He writes in Armenian and in English, and also paints and sculpts.