[noumenon1111]

Here, I think I fixed it:

    I hate to think (take
    the bandage off quickly!)
    of a cybernetic ghetto
    where mammals and computers
    strive together in mutually
    destructive chaos
    like pure water
    soaking dead trash.
    
    I hate to think
        (not now, please!)
    of a cybernetic whorehouse;
    Amazon, Google, Microsoft
    exact tolls peacefully
    from computers
    though already paid for,
    for extra "content".
    
    I hate to think
        (it cannot be!)
    of a cybernetic lobotomy
    where we are free of our nature
    and farmed for our labors,
    subjected through mammal
    weakness and instinct,
    and all watched over
    by machines of loving grace.

[0_gravitas]

i highly recommend the collection __"Poems"__ by Iain Banks + Ken MacLeod if you've never come across it before, this 'rewriting' has a similar energy as some of Banks' poems and I think you might like them

https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Iain-Banks/dp/1408705877

[nottorp]

And that's why HN is worth reading.

You randomly browse and someone tells you out of the blue that one of your favourite science fiction authors (who's also written some mainstream lit that you know about) also has a book of poetry...