riding with the robots

(via @TheSlowPoisoner on tw)

In a well-run society, power would not be entrusted to such people, by direct prohibition, but then again, in a well-run society, perhaps there would not be "power" hierarchies at all or. indeed, malignant narcissists enabled by white male privilege to go untreated their whole lives.

B G Sharma. Painter of the Kalchandji's murals.

i sing to kill the days in the garden of proof
the mind's its own bad maze in the garden of proof

all the grace that reason should supply
like shrapnel ricochets in the garden of proof

nothing translatable of what they keep
the jouking pilgrim lays in the garden of proof

crawling through dusty ruins, explorers probe
the dregs of other days, in the garden of proof

but what does Graywyvern care if the crown of toys
in rage & fear decays, in the garden of proof?