The Great Monster - but the words are Ai generated art
Channel: New Yorkshireman
Date: 2022-11-06

Poem Published on March 17, 2017 by M.Hurdiss

Video Published on November 6, 2022 by New Yorkshireman

AI artwork generated by midjourney.com

The Great Monster

Above the earth, below the sky
It sees us hungry, a thousand eyes

Veins of rubber, copper, wires
All mankind’s knowledge it desires

Neon colours scar its skin,
Flashing, grating, drawing-in

It’s feet are chains these mighty pillars
Exploited workforce on painkillers

It wants our arms but not our minds
Rips out our brains and leaves aside

Its voice is ours but acted out
Through tiny speakers all about

You feed yourselves but also that
Dependent children make it fat

Some men rich upon it sit
Deluded imps (to it they’re ticks)

Beasts have order monsters not
Its boundless hunger cannot stop

Blind and swelling like cancer grows
The people love it, but it is our foe

Stop to think where does it go?
Your paper, coins, and revenue flow?

“It doesn’t matter I bought my thing!”
Bragging, clutching your shiny bling

How many things could have bought land?
A place to make a brave last stand

for The Monster makes us more like that
we’re greedy-blind except for tat

It’s headless form does hold no brain
It’s not alive and feels no pain

It grows and spreads a virus titan
Rewrites truths to make us frightened

All mankind’s factions on this earth
All compass bearings, breeds and births

Blindly follow what it says
Because it feeds us day by day

But man was here before it swelled
This omni-kraken built in hell

You look, don’t see, but it is there
To see the monster leaves you bare

Absent minded on me looks
then tells to you, to me to stop

The sane a crazy Sudden-Think!
Monsters teachings minds they sink


“We fear the voice that’s out of step
Different voices must be threats!”

On and on its echoes go
Through us its voice is always thrown

Its heart beats on mechanic drones
All light and dark it makes its own
The fiction-facts blurred in its zone
Flashing behemoth, LET US GO! 

We built it and placed it 
with pride in our hall
Back in the age 
when its body was small
But please heed the warning
please heed the call

“Soon the great monster 
shall swallow us all”