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Surveillance

to proceed you must first accept

please truly wont you auto / correct my soul

by Sean Wai Keung

2nd November 2026
Photo: Missohio Studio
to proceed you must first accept
Sean Wai Keung

please truly wont you auto
correct my soul | tell me
the mistakes in the grammar
of my everyday life | punctuate
each of my sentences perfectly |

keep watch over me with your
find-and-replace control c
control v copy-paste eyes | edit
the documentation of my lungs
into suitably sacred language

| scrape me for all i am worth | translate
my fingerprints into large language
models | then use them to generate
the next generation | please consider this
permission to use my tithing | 10%

of my cookies and keystrokes | to target
any who would dare will themselves
holier than thou | please twist
my recognisable patterns to manifest
the downfall | of those who choose to disagree

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© Sean Wai Keung

Sean Wai Keung

Sean Wai Keung

Sean Wai Keung is a poet, performance maker and food writer based in Glasgow.

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