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Sara Marron and Michael Reich

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The Lucy cell 
the stock exchange creating a consciousness 
the computer, functioning on man-made algorithms 
corrects its own mistakes 
error-correction is a sign of 
(to a computer) 
a sign of its own conscious 
its own identity 
millions of years later 
this Lucy cell 
ten billion years later 
the computer race 
will be looking back 
“That’s what they called 
archaeology."

Sara earned her Bachelors in English this year from St. John’s University, and is a Masters Candidate for 2016. Her work has appeared in Digital Papercut, Dark Matter, and Sequoya. Currently she is working on several poetry collections in the midst of working full-time in New York City for Green Mountain Energy, a renewable energy company. She has aspirations to write a novel, and will continue writing poems.

Michael Reich is a Doctoral Candidate at St. Johns University studying Composition with Professors Harry Denny and Anne Geller, as well as poetry with Professor Lee Anne Brown. He has been writing poetry for over 10 years.