Algorithms

They come to understand us through numbers and baseline responses.  
They satisfy our egos while unbeknownst they strangle the self.  
They collect bookshelves of data and present us with false images etched in family members.  
Do you remember December?
The face you made as that instrumental played?
It went with a meme.
It was connected to an article.  
Hypothetically we call it fake news.
Designed to confuse the public and diffuse scientific community.  
Fearmongering disunity with impunity.  
They sell us things.
They tell what our friends like as if they own it.
I admit I too am on Instagram.  
I took a year off social media and immediately I could clearly see a new reality to me.  
Arbitrarily speaking I begin to see poetry.  
I begin to see poetry algorithmically and its opposite in duality.
My reality shattered and reformed I chose to conform to artistic expression.  
I add these confessions to the algorithm.  
This is my attempt at off setting the formula.  
All the creators are doing it.  
We add the expressions of man that vividly describe the tears of an angel.  
To some degree social media has America in an ankle lock.
But is America Achilles or could he be the international community on its knees?
Mathematically speaking algorithms can speak the language of the mob.  
What if Facebook calculated in the time of the Salem Witch Trials?
Bonfires would have gone live and viral.
Algorithms can spiral out of control and context.
If left unchecked calculations and gratification can lead gentrification and further separation.  
The New World is inclusion and expression.  
Feed the algorithm expressions of love and wisdom and that will be what it knows.
Overload its calculus with hedonistic self gratification unabashed to the good of the common core and the algorithm will reciprocate.
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