LUCIA LU

I don't believe I am destined for true love in this life

day and night, the monarch caterpillar
consumes the milkweed plant, devotes itself
to each and every leaf

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"it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level
performance on intelligence
tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them
the skills of a one-year-old when it comes
to perception and mobility"

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When I was a rat and you were a rat,
I was too distracted being dizzyingly, spectacularly happy
to notice that we were two rats. Eve, I think,
had no such shortcomings.

Lucia is literally just a guy. Their work can be found in trampset and HAD. Her chapbook, AN INVASIVE SPECIES, is available with Bottlecap Press.