Your Brain Is not a Computer

Dystopian Poetry with a Pulse · Hush Halo · S186

Your Brain Is not a Computer

Leaning on the lukewarm comfort 
of a microwaved coffee,
you tried so hard to comply,
to quiet the wild,
to flatten,
to fake,
to debug your doubts,
to disconnect from the pulse.

How—I don’t know.
Somehow, though,
it resisted.

The old grey graveyard,
the moist matter making the mind,
with sparkling synapses,
wired in silver— 
crackled.

Your brain 
is not a computer.



©Samia Oldman

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Hush Halo is a dystopian fantasy poetry collection set in a near-future shaped by technology, silence, and optimized perfection. Each poem is paired with its own immersive soundscape. Learn more in Square One.

Context: After the Great Optimization, a privileged group integrated into the system, believing they had now perfected themselves.

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