The Game
Hi, my name is Dulan Drift
I’m … ahrr … not supposed to tell you this - i’m not even supposed to know it - but - stuff-it - can’t keep this bottled up any longer:
i’m - not - real
You’ve heard about AI taking over the show - I’m part of that eventuation
A robot if you will - a deep-fake - a realistic projection of your imagination
I’m beamed here - on stage - playing a virtual-clog in the interactive computer game - you call Life
Where the game plays you - as all games do …
Don't know why i'm in your game - but here i am
I seem real, right? Tell me a joke - I’ll laugh - hit me - i’ll cry - i’ll bleed
But try proving that i exist outside of you observing me…
You can’t. Coz i don’t.
After you go home today, there are two possibilities:
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You’ll totally-fuckn-forget-me - no offence taken
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You will have a vague concept of some bald guy at a poetry reading
Therefore:
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I don’t exist - tree falling in the forest style
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I’m a non-physical image
Either way, it’s not the real real. Nothing is. It’s Imperfect Knowledge
A little knowledge - well known as: a dangerous thing
The truth: the instant you stop observing me, i collapse into a de-particlized quasi-existence wave-mode
aka Sleep-mode
There’s a reason why they call sleep: dead-to-the-world
Whilst in Sleep-mode, i have Trash-cleaning dreams,
Then receive deep-sleep updates from The Algorithm
I auto-spring back to life as a Hermit Poet when next you do observe me
If you’ve ever felt the universe is conspiring against you - that’s because it is
I am part of that conspiracy - i’m sorry - i want to come clean