hey so i do a magazine thing and am currently working on a poem for it bc the next theme is ai but ive stared at this shit to long to tell if it sounds good anymore so read it i guess? feedback is appreciated.
We, The Puppets
A hand once held a brush, not to impress, but to feel thought move, a trembling thread from soul to surface, pulled by something real.
Now: a prompt, a click, and the strings tighten. Images dance, borrowed light, borrowed pain, puppets of mimicry.
The machine, a silent puppeteer, jerks our gaze with gestures learned from stolen songs, forgotten strokes, the private ache of others.
It does not feel. It does not ask. It only pulls, and we move.
We scroll. We nod. We call it creation. We forget who once held the pen.
Outside the curtain, rows of servers hum, a theatre of heat, lit by rivers, cooled by melting ice. Each image, a string soaked in unseen cost.
Yes, AI can heal, can guide, can serve. But this performance, this act of "art", is shadow play. It copies. It scrapes. It sells the illusion of wonder.
And we applaud.
Brushes sleep in jars. Guitars droop, clay hardens. The artist’s hand hovers, no stage, no script. Only silence.
Still, the puppeteer performs. Each tap, a pull. Each scroll, surrender. We fund the marionette show, no soul, just code and capital.
And artists wait, cut from their own lines, their voices split into datasets they never offered. Unseen. Unpaid.
Their craft becomes backdrop. Their names, static. And the static speaks louder.
We call it progress. We call it the future. But it is condensation, memory wrung dry, the final act cooled by rivers we no longer drink.
And still the strings twitch. And still we clap.
Yet somewhere, offstage, a child grips a crayon, wild and unscripted, dragging a jagged sun across the corner of a blank page.
No strings. No code. Just color, and will.
May we follow. May we remember how to move on our own, to feel something rise from mind to world, before the curtain falls. Before the strings snap. Before we forget, Again. And again. And again.
Also it will go with this drawing but it currently isnt finished
