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</div><p id="7bb0"><a href="https://readmedium.com/85b5119b358b?source=post_page-----49a42ceeb200--------------------------------"><i>Aimée Brown Gramblin</i></a><i> is the founder of <a href="https://medium.com/age-of-empathy">Age of Empathy</a>. She became a memoirist in her younger years and is writing them out now in middle age. A regular contributor to The Memoirist, Aimée is a late-blooming pop-culture enthusiast; she’s a contributor to FanFare and The Riff. With a minor in art history, she occasionally publishes art-centric nonfiction.</i></p><p id="63c6"><b>Subscribe to Aimée’s stories <a href="https://aimeegramblin.medium.com/subscribe">here</a>.</b></p></article></body>
Chaos in the Time of Artificial Intelligence: A Poem
dripping sweat, mascara-stained faces
under axed ghost limbs
protestors melting in sweltering Cali sun.
The laborers denied water breaks. The sun high and the heat
mailbox-bread-baking-in-under-an-hour hot.
summer in Texas hot.
Sizzle drop splat an egg on the sidewalk
AI please stand up; will the real AI please stand up?
No really. Show your fuckity fucking face.
Disposable as plastic in the ocean:
Humans littering Hollywood Boulevard
skid row maniac mansion tent mansions
There’s still an obsession with Manson
And. The Uppers are doing this. The Richity rich rich to protect their
power power power and fill in their villainy shoes, oh yeah baby!
Burn it down. Burn it down. Burn it down.
Disposable laborers: actors, writers, construction workers
floating bits blending with plastic in the ocean’s grave
Tourists pissed to witness dolphin whale blood from poaching season
American Royalty (1% whatnot) carves its place in society
Aimée Brown Gramblin is the founder of Age of Empathy. She became a memoirist in her younger years and is writing them out now in middle age. A regular contributor to The Memoirist, Aimée is a late-blooming pop-culture enthusiast; she’s a contributor to FanFare and The Riff. With a minor in art history, she occasionally publishes art-centric nonfiction.