Tonight's Poet Corner: Android Feelings
by Belinda Roddie [ Inspired by Daft Punk's "Technologic"] crack their skulls with ram and mem'ry and you'll find a sea of sadness wrung out emotion assembly slow descending into madness pop the metal joints and pivot all their fingers toward the ceiling every dent and drop and divot in the walls is so revealing watch the pupils scrape together as they see more than they want to watch the lips start asking whether the same pictures also haunt you 'cause they have their x-ray vision and they have their mega-sensors ultra-super-powered mission to take minds and have them measured every scar and every fissure every cut and gash and crevice every line that a publisher marks up red for sake of premise every fault that you're ignoring they can't shrug away the scratching clawing at their sinews, boring into steel cerebral thatching doesn't matter if the pain is artificial or proverbial they don't know what their own name