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The Machines Had Taken Over
by Melissa R. Mendelson

The machines control us now.

So, click, like, and subscribe,

and follow.

Do not pull the thread,

or you unravel.

Just click, like, and subscribe,

and you follow.

Don’t blink, think,

or believe you are different.

Stay and click, like, and subscribe,

and keep following.

Don’t pull away.

You only matter as long as your fingers keep moving,

and follow.

And forget that buzzing in the back of your head

for thought no longer matters.

Emotion is dead.

She is locked far away,

wrapped tightly in circuitry arms,

slowly suffocating from the algorithm

eating you alive,

but don’t worry.

You won’t feel a thing

as long as you

click, like, and subscribe.

You want to live?

Then, you will follow.

About Author Melissa R. Mendelson:

Melissa R. Mendelson is a horror, science-fiction and dystopian author and poet. She has two publications with Wild Ink Publishing. One is a prose poetry collection, This Will Remain With Us, and the other is a short story collection, Stories Written On Covid Walls. She also self-published a sci-fi novella, Waken and a small short story collection, Name’s Keeper.

If you’d like to learn more about Melissa, you can visit her accounts here: www.MelissaMendelson.com