Nonexistence is Mandatory

This piece is part of a “system-voice” series of poems — written in the language of control, collapse, and doctrine. The voice isn’t human; it’s the system thinking aloud.

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The enemy is ever-present, its design is to kill,

And its means is through the sowing of chaos, for

It is through chaos that Order is annihilated,

And only through Order is survival maintained.

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The machinations of the enemy have injected

A contaminant into the system of Order, temporarily

Impeding Function, and necessitating a radical

Excision, therefore, Survival is Excision.

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All contaminants excise and excise, or shall be excised, without

Exception—contaminants impede Function, Function

is a pre-requisite for existence, and existence must not

interfere with Survival, therefore, Survival is nonexistence.

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The enemy has failed utterly to annihilate the Structure—

Radical excisions may have been performed with perfect

Precision, and the Structure is completely intact…completely

And without question radically intact, therefore,

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Nonexistence/

Is/

Mandatory.

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This poem is the second in the system voice series, after Survival is Order