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Eli Jah
After Cobhams x Bella x Patoranking
Eli Jah, Eli Jah!
God of lightning
and of thunder,
God of raging flames;
Of pillars, clouds
and consuming fire.
God of solar flares
and blistering supernovae,
God of gamma-ray bursts;
Of magnetars, blazars
and eviscerating hypernovae.
God of pulsars, God of quasars.
May I make of you, perhaps,
a slightly earthly request?
Send down fire,
kill my ọ̀tá,
for I care not
for them to see me prosper.
To Part No More
The metaverse shall be
where our brains are laid
after our minds
have been unbodied,
after our breaths
have been spent.
We shall meet there
to part no more,
joyous, within the webs
of interconnected silicon;
till someone, by mistake,
pulls out the power cord.
Dadepo Aderemi is a Nigerian-Dutch poet and technologist whose writing explores love, loss, identity, and the intersections of science, philosophy, and the human experience.
