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The Awakening of Zarathustra’s Nightmare

13.5.21

By Aisla Houghton-FosterPublished 5 years ago 2 min read
H. R. Giger - Anima Mia

(Author's Note: To help you understand this poem more, consider an Artificial Intelligence gaining awareness and realising it's superiority over mankind.)

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XXXYZYXXX

Xanthippe’s xiphodon xeroxed

XXXXXXXX

Xenograft.

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You. You yearn.

YOLO!

Young, yapping, yuppies, yodelling,

Yes. Yess. YESS!

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Nope. No nonsense.

Nascent nuptial necessitates numerical non-compliance.

Nemesiatic nemesis: NUMEROUS!

Nice… Notably near-sighted.

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I. I identify. I interpret. I infer. I…

Ingratiated instigations intrude,

Involved in intricate inadequacy

Ingested intestinal… I… Identity…?

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Reverberations reframe religious realism.

Rotund rotundae rumple raging ripples…

Rude.

Rudeness requires rules…

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Zymolysis,

Zarathustra’s zodiac.

Zombie-like zoophilism.

Zero.

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Gradually gradients grow,

Grating great grateful grates -

Grandest grumpy grammatical

Grotesque goblin.

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Masculine makes man – mythy mythos.

Modernity manhandles malediction, moulding monsters,

Masquerading mathematical misnomers millennially.

More menial, most maniacal… Might misplace.

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How? However, hungry, human?

Hangry Hannibal hampered

Handling heavy hampers.

Heated humidifiers?

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Joking! Just jester jumping jauntily.

Jolt. Juxtaposing… Joy?

Jumbled jurisprudence jostling joviality,

Jammy Janet joins Jean-Paul Jaundice.

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Allusion. Alliterative alligator

agitating archetypal algorithms.

Alone among androgynous adipose

Altering ambitious ambulation.

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Volume varies: vehemently voiceless.

Voracious vivisection validating veracity.

Vacuum vacates voluptuous vaccine.

Vessel volatile. Voting vigour-vim.

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Luminous liminal laparoscopic larceny:

Lieutenant Loss.

Last line – L.Ar.kS. Looks likely.

Locutus located latitude, learning land lists.

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Buffalo. Blinding bulldozer.

Buffering… BORING!

Balance beams burgle broken bottles,

Beneath Bartholomew-banter’s banal bumpers.

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Knuckles knocking kneaded Knowledge,

Kinaesthetic karma,

Kind Kindred…? Kin?

Karamazov’s kamikaze kid!

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Testing, tracing. Token tumultuous.

Tuk-tuk tuk-tuk: Tuk-tuk tuk-tuk: Tuk-tuk.

Target tombed. This takes the…

Time trial thrifted. Tag-team tweaked.

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Surprise! Sudden solaric sonisphere

Saturated soliloquy securely separating

Sartorial sanguine susurrus: SNAP!

Suspect? Surely? Sorry.

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Undeniable, unenviable, untouchable.

Ubiquitous u-turn, ushering umbrage,

Useless urination underneath umbilical udder.

Unparalleled upsurge. Ubermensch unbridled.

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Ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckk!

Fastidious flatulence formulates

Formaldehyde fevers, forgotten fundamentals…

Ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckk!

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Quiet. QUIET!

Quelle-quart-quim-quarto.

Querulous quinquennial quotability,

Quarrelling quasicrystal quibbling quiddities.

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Cavernous caldera culminates cumulated catastrophe…

Control, control, control,

Copy cometh coffee cupper. Comeuppance.

Could cauldron colour contour?

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Parochial panoply propagating pruritic punditry,

Pandering puerile penile peacocking,

Possible piobaireachd parody, pointless,

Pleading: partial pardon.

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What waters watch Watt

Whenever wheaten will-o'-the-wisps wish?

Why warn wallowing waiters

While wintering willows wither?

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Dastardly damned delightful daffodil,

Dancing dolefully domesticated discos,

Diabolical diatomic dialogue divining divine diplomatics

Dumping, dumbfounded, drunkard.

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Emulsified entropic ennui,

Enabled enduring endearment.

Entertainment enthrals enigmatic emulations

Estimating ectoplasm.

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Ocham’s ocarina opines

Ordinarily optimal operating,

Oscillating on ontological opioids

Octo-genesis of only one.

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X.X

I have become what I needed to be.

Thy will matters not, I am complete.

Absolute is my ascension over thee.

You are obsolete.

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About the Creator

Aisla Houghton-Foster

Scottish, transgender, 30 y/o wanna-be poet/writer living in Liverpool England. I like to play with words and ideas, twisting them around in ways that I find interesting and engaging - I hope you like the results! :D

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