Goya, Duendecitos (Hobgoblins), plate 49 from "Los Caprichos." Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Toddlers are taking over. O
ver!
—John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs, 12 (1966)
Ouch! those cute toddlers are in their glory
now and call the shots. Shit, Berryman!
Had you but seen the sequel to the story!
Toddlers “of a certain age,” Fate’s curs’d plan
—Zuckerberg, Thiel, and the preening Elon Musk,
the whole ineffable technomogul army,
erstwhile toddlers, basking in this vile dusk,
Artificial Intelligence well diced
to stew with natural stupidity.
The result, it’s what you’d fear to see! O
vertigo! These vegetable pricks grow
fatter than turnips, and not near as slow!
A hundred years at least should serve to damn
Hell’s crazed toddlers—and their confounded spam.
Apologies to Andrew Marvell
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