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Mom is having a moment (lemmy.world)
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[-] zen@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 hours ago

Is this your mum?

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I been procrastinating this translation for a while but now warhammer and poetry are in the same context, I simply have to.

(In case you wanna listen to it)

I want to be mechanized.

vroom, vroom, vroom!
clank clank clank!

I want to be mechanized.
This [feeling] comes from my brain, from my flesh, from my bones.
I go mad to get my hands on every dynamo.
My saliva-covered tongue is licking copper wires.
The auto-draisine in my veins is chasing down locomotives.

vroom,
vroom!

clank clank clank!

I want to be mechanized.
Certainly I will find a solution to this.
And then I will be content only
the day I mount a turbine in my abdomen, and
append a double-propulsor on my tailplane!

vroom vroom
clank clank clank!

I want to be mechanized!

- Nazim Hikmet, 1923. Makinalaşmak İstiyorum.

this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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