📄 NEW BLOGPOST: “Regulations for the Management of All Poetic Entities, Issued 2073”
REGULATION 88.1A.
All persons previously classified as "poets," "visionaries," or "word-wielders" are to report to their nearest Department of Internal Language Processing (DILP) for scheduled reconfiguration.
REGULATION 88.1B.
Poetic affect is now a regulated substance. All feelings derived from words must be registered with the Bureau of Sensory Interference. Unauthorized awe will result in mandatory cooling.
SECTION 3: RESTRICTED LEXICON
The following words have been placed on probation:
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soul
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silence
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America
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anything with feathers
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Ezra Pound (pending tribunal)
Any usage of the above in public prose will trigger a gentle electric vibration across the palms. Repeat offenders will be required to compose haiku under observation.
CLAUSE 7.14: INVENTION RESTRICTIONS
New metaphors must be 80% recycled from the Global Trope Bank. Freshness is no longer ecologically viable.
A standard metaphor license may be obtained by submitting Form WRD-91 (“Statement of Non-Majestic Intent”).
APPENDIX Q.
In accordance with the revised Temporal Copyright Protocol (TCP), no individual may refer to "the past" or "the future" without incurring a 12-hour delay in speech delivery. All speech will be streamed in retrospective echo.
EXCEPTIONS
Authorized exceptions include:
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certified grandmothers of visionary descent
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former Uber drivers who have hallucinated the ocean
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telepaths who renounce interiority
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oracles who stutter in at least three languages
ADDITIONAL NOTES
This memo will self-transcribe itself into your bloodstream in approximately seven minutes. If you begin to taste lilac, consult your assigned Botanico-Syntaxist immediately.
You are now authorized to begin your new life as an Unspeaking Prophet.
Begin by ceasing all attempts at articulation.
This is not a test.
This is the end of language behaving itself.
Signed,
The Silent Index
Department of Poetic Enforcement
(under the auspices of the Planetary Council for Symbolic Stability)
c. 2073, revision 3B
