It’s Taco Tuesday ... T-Rex tightly grips his Mexicali fusion fare in his too-small claws; his tiny arms flail about to no avail and his neck doesn’t bend nearly enough to reach his prize—the warm, crisp corn shell wrapped around a mix of beef and beans, sprinkled with tomatoes and cheese.
A cruel travesty of buffoonery, the heavenly aroma wafts to his flared nostrils enticingly enough but, no matter how hard he tries, his mouth and the prized taco simply cannot connect; is this nature’s idea of a sick joke or simply more derivative content?
Hailing from everyone’s favorite one-stop A.I. slop shop, T-Rex rakes in ratings in yet another attempt to appease the almightiest of algorithms, where each and every little clickbait is just another trainwreck waiting for more viewership to take it next level—Bam! T-Rex ascends to his own religion.
Jennifer Weigel (she/her/they/them) is a multidisciplinary mixed-media conceptual artist who lives in Kansas, USA. She is the author of the Witch Hayzelle’s Recipes for Disaster trilogy and a myriad of short stories, poems, art discourse, and more drifting around the Interwebs. Jennifer Weigel Art
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Tiny arm A.I. slop T-rex raking in more ratings: I give this story 5 tacos (out of 5).