In the days before the Large Language Models sucked our brains out through paper straws

Annie nailed the notice to the cross

.

In the days before

The Large Language Models

Sucked our brains out through paper straws

Fed them back to us

.

The last archivist

Annie alone stood, pale

Held the final tablets of human pleadings

Right there in Lubbock, Texas

.

We, mute

.

She cracked the tablets over Buddy Holly’s headstone

“In Loving Memory of Our Own Buddy Holley

September 7, 1936 to February 3, 1959″