Changming Yuan, a 6-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Landscaping (2013), grew  up in rural China but currently tutors in Vancouver, where he copublishes Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan and operates PP Press. With a PhD in English, Yuan has recently been interviewed by [PANK] and had poetry appear in Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine, Threepenny Review, and 749 other literary journals/anthologies across 28 countries.

Cybersburg Address: A Free Sonnet
By Changming Yuan

In the 1950s, our uncles brought forth
A civilization, conceived in electronics
And dedicated to the cause that all
Machines were created to be equally apathetic
To humans when a message was sent
From a lab at some campus, which can
Think logically, but not respond emotionally:
Whether you like it or not
This semi-being would never speed up
A moment even though you are dying
Nor will it slow down when it is to crash
Neither a smallest smile to hear
The great news, nor a smattering of
Sadness over the loss of your dearest
It keeps working at the predetermined pace
Always indifferent of the people
By the people and for the people
Until we all perish with the earth.