Krip Nepo Baby

I.

Capitalism:

A term that rings

With the sting of

Quotidian evils and yet

Trite in its invocations and yet

Nonspecific

Systematized harm

Framed as an accident

But totally woven into a family

Almost as natural as an accent

And

Life after life of

Little joys like palliative care

.

.

I am

A . . .

Read the rest of this poem (featuring a baby pic of yours truly!) for free on my Patreon.

Note: Substack has integrated Pangram, allegedly a top-tier AI detection tool. But several writers have noted an utter lack of transparency and accountability for these tools. To quote Dr. Jamie Hoerricks:

“The model is proprietary. The training data are unavailable. The weighting of linguistic features is undisclosed. The decision process is hidden. The precise version of the system may change without the user knowing, and the result arrives without the kind of technical record that would allow another examiner to reconstruct how it was produced.”

You can read more here. I no longer trust my work on a platform that I can’t verify won’t feed my work to LLMs, and currently evaluates my work based on an unknown algorithm. It is with great disappointment and, frankly, annoyance—I found a wonderful community and audience here—that I am moving my archive and any future posts aside from short previews over to Patreon. All of my content is still absolutely free, but since I am too disabled to work full-time, I would love it if you could support me over there! Either way, thank you so much for reading!

You can also find me on my Discord, EXODUS. May we keep our solidarity beyond the whims of technofeudalist platforms.

<3 Themma