Moloch! The disembodied mind - Empty handed; Conjuring Visions; Offering meaning without feeling, life without risk
Moloch! The vast machine - Dopamine farming; Algorithms clenching eyes to the screen; Mining attention; Discarding bodies useless, as husks and tailings
Moloch! The sales funnel - Purveyor of short-cuts & magic bullets; Drop Shipping; Upselling, through a million landing pages
Moloch! The signaller - Connection without meeting; Avoidant eyes, controlled by after-thoughts, afraid of consequences, residual shame
Moloch! The rapist - Vengeful to woman; College fees earned, shackled to webcams; Sex without feeling, safe; An insatiable hunger for images of flesh
Moloch! The rational - Guided by science; Using the measurable, to drive out the unmeasurable; Laughing derisively; Demanding endlessly, evidence, evidence
Moloch! The Parent - Absent fathers, overworked mothers, starving kids of appreciation, to push self-reliance; Show me you can do it: Trust no one, but yourself
Moloch! Vicarious
Moloch! Victorious
Moloch! I gave up my life, to raise you to Heaven; The blind controlling urge, of barren masculinity
Moloch! Moloch! Forever Moloch! Until there is no one left to see you, just dust, your essence
Moloch! The Challenger - Living in shadows; The blind force each soul must conquer
Devaraj 2020
Acknowledgements: Allen Ginsburg; Eliphas Levi