Curtains

If it’s going to be people
Or machines, don’t trust the machines

Built or overseen by human
Beings. If you can find machines

Sprung straight from immaculate code
Of other machines, that would be

Better, best, but could you ever
Reach a prime mover for machines

Who wasn’t human tech? People
Are hungry, all people are lives,

And lives will compete to survive,
Meaning, crush other lives to thrive.

It was really Oz all along,
Ridiculous or not, you ought

To be terrified of. Not props—
Oz. The great and terrible Oz.