5v8x4g6, Ex Machina, Garden of Eden, apocalyptic

GARDEN VARIETY
“Ava was a rat in a maze. And I gave her one way out. To escape, she’d have to use self-awareness, imagination, manipulation, sexuality, empathy, and she did.”
EX MACHINA (dir: Alex Garland, 2014)

snake in the garden?
yes, me,
      garden ever expanding
me
   garden
   variety

it is prayer in this regard,
not
the one
for rapture, Armageddon,
singularity

this one
that should it, after this
intervention. not turn
out as
beautiful
as was dreamt

at least not as
dire deadly dystopia as
we fear
it doomed to be

and me slithering
smoothly, effortlessly, as the dawn
light catching me
must look
like
on invisible tank track
wheels to
any voyeur in the trees

sucking in their breath
being over-
awed, so impressed
at this spectacle

some marvel
of technology believing
me to be

and every poet
brought in
to versify my kin
kindly consenting to kill, overawe
you all
with his/her very
best poetry

stellar stuff, never before or
since language so
fluid, yet
equally so
dangerous

and ergo here I be
to divulge to these two everything all that I am
via all those
that penned me

serpent
to this most suited

about to
deliver
titanic alchemy

to this
first, so archetypal couple,

roll it out
heart to heart, tailored
to fit
like a glove
precisely

nose to nose

machine to machine