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Issue 18: Radical Futurity
Yen, Derek
By Derek Yen

API requests for present dystopia

Poetry

Weather lights a mouth as vines drink sun in windowed rooms, / but I lied before.

The featured artwork was created for this piece by our Art Director, Meg Sykes.
Image of the poem "3API requests for present dystopia," which is presented as a table.

Notes:

Yen, Derek
Derek Yen

Derek Yen writes code in the mornings and everything else in the evenings. He often returns to thoughts of illness, technology, and speculative imagination. His writings have been published in Lucky Jefferson, A Velvet Giant, and No, Dear. He shares an apartment in Brooklyn with his partner, their dog, and several houseplants. Find him online at speculativeloaf.wordpress.com.

Edited by Stuti Pachisia and Ivy Raff.
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