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the mechanism
             evolved
           and now enables the user
to control minds with
              such precision
           as to
  create new figurations
     of reality
a radical attempt at
          outlasting
               post-nuclear doom

               there are no
             confirmed
         connections
    between
this fallout humanity
     and ancient
               corruptions
but the conspiracy theorists
are already
           blogging

new life created
   but not approved
      with a wild aesthetic
barely resembling
             the ancestors
          that once populated
the universe
               the implications
       have yet to be
revealed

             and so we gather
    in the shadows
to watch what happens
             and preserve the
         remains of society
               until the heroes return
to take them down