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Alex Walls

New Zealand

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Alex Walls is a student of poetry and maths at Auckland University in her last year.  She is an aspiring poet and has been published previously in The Typewriter.  Her poetry is usually written from her social and educational experiences.

The Art of Science

I'm in

Science mode

Programmed into my split 6rain

I am

a robot

My chest covered in blinking lights

Christmas lights, tinse1 coloured

They wink

ON? 0FF?   ON?

A pattern of light that b 1 u r s

Resolves, blurs, bluuuuuuurrrrrrssssss5ss

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down my body

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Metal g1ints picked up in the torrent of light

Pour over me, pulses of c0lour

P00l about my feet, flow up my calves

To my h3ad to crown m3

With sinus0idal weaves of the c0r0net.

I 1ook closer, de1ve deeper, rea1ize

9The 1ight patt3rns are mad3 of numb3rs

8Mind 6saturat3d in binary 7c0d3

2Twink1ing 3quati0ns 6ab0ut 5my 1ight3d 9br0w-

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