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Recorded for (0:48): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zbupcfilazac2s93v65ij/Automaton.mp3?rlkey=3ohkrv8cjrym8douofzl02viq&st=uzlmbjxz&dl=0

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Automaton

I am assigned to Unit 5
Allowed eleven minutes for this transit

You don’t look like me
You are not in my unit

I don’t even know, personally
Whether your unit actually exists

If it does not, you serve no purpose
Should never have been created

What an anomaly you are
Anomalies are bad for smooth assembly

If I could I would eliminate you

All this thinking
Of unwelcome thoughts
Is making me

Late

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