While seemingly incoherent and hallucinatory, the text is a riff on the end poem for Minecraft, originally written by the Irish poet Julian Gough and triggered when you reach the closest thing to an “ending” in Minecraft, which isn’t really a linear game. Where the America.gov output says “I see the constituent you mean,” the original poem said “I see the player you mean.” And the riffing just continues like that, with the references and imagery changed so that instead of the poem seeming to narrate the game’s inner voice reacting to a player, it narrates something sort of like the federal government’s inner voice reacting to a “constituent.”
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