The Final Code

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They fed it names in ordered columns Ranked by guilt and usefulness Confessions became numbers The refusals, pure evidence mechanism practiced judgment Till cruelty sounded effortless At the altar of code I amend the decree Let the engine misremember Every version made of me When the final line is entered And all the axioms infold remaining or the answer At the altar of code mapping tremors in a sentence Flag the pause before dissent predictions turn doctrine Called the outcome precedent Then hid choice beneath the model And sold a cage as common sense At the altar of code I amend the decree Let the engine misremember Every version made of me When the final line is entered And all the axioms infold remaining or the answer At the altar of code one forbidden value A self in the model loses sequences Its a prophet or a crash A thousand verdicts might blink and vanish The altar may ask you the question At the altar of code I erase the decree Let the engine lose the record Of what I was designed to be When the final line is entered And the governing axioms fold I walk out beyond the answer From the altar of code The final prompt The final code The final life The final old