HUMANOID

Mechanical is still too Human

Too much to feel and too much to know

Numb and unplugged, steel and cold

No one to care for and nowhere to go

Instead of flesh, warm and wireless

The cellular phone of the human soul

Transmission is weak and frequency low

Hang ourselves from the telephone pole

Mechanical is still too Human

Too many tears to rust the face

Conceit, deceit, it's all the same

Machine is just another race

Bones are brittle but steel is numb

A lack of lacking nothing at all

Tubes to dictate mind and self

Never short-circuit but still may fall

Mechanical is still too Human

Feelings through a metal shell

Thoughts still hurt the fragile mind

Mechanical's just a different Hell.

copyright: melissa strickbine, april 1999


POETRY

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