I'm talking to a dumb robot
Plop plop pleep plop ploop plop plop
Goddamn humans
Someone programmed this thing
And left it to rust
Greened copper and cinnamon iron
Dust crust and oil in its joints
Wind whistling through its vents
I jam my fingers on its buttons
until my distal phalanx bruises
Press the dot, the circle
pull the levers
turn a dial
It creaks and moans
Pleep plop ploop Ploop ploop Ploop
Goddamn it
Goddamn it
There's nothing on the dusty red horizon
Only craters and boulders
Nothing in the barren yellow clouds
And I'm running out of air
Goddamn it
Goddamn me
I drop my drill to the ground
and cry big fat oil tears
I want to smash the fucking robot
but then I'd be the only one left
I bang my head on his cylinder
Plop
Goddamn damn damn
That robot has no head and no heart
They forgot me here.
makes me think of Ray Bradbury stories......
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