Bowels filled with compassion, By Prostetnic Twulve.

Bowels filled with compassion

By Prostetnic Twulve. 

Telepath

cringed as I passed

next time keep my thoughts to yourself


Stasis between stars

Sentenced to serve for thought crimes

Cold, dark, and alone


They say, 'hide your passions!',

Yet I can't resist the roar

of rocketships


Asteroids collide

without a sound...

We maneuver between fragments.


waiting unshaven,

my spacesuit halfway on

in the not-yet dawn


Alone, busy yet bored, in the dropship-- wistfully thinking of doom


Going to red planet,

soldiers and prostetnics,

another stupid job


We came

in the season of a cold moon...

one star fell...then many...


after dropships

aerobots glide thru the streetlights

then back to darkness


Thru empty windows

of abandoned buildings,

a stupid napalm bat...


on these radioactive

wastelands...

the weak shrill cry of humani


We all got suspicious

when we turned out the lights

and Max was still glowing


serious children

scrape dust from the joints

of the war machines


carrion bugs scattered

with each twitch

of reanimated flesh


Exploring abandoned starship

careful

not to disturb the eggs


safe in a dark vent

as the creature passes

...until my suit beeped


sand-plains at dusk:

abandoned launchpads

in fields of debris


Laser fire!

In our robot war machines

we battled to the death.


In the Araxes heat:

head-box brainslug

abruptly loses its grip


Damaged satellites

loose part tumbling

alongside its orbital path


Mid-summer day

the humming shells of cryochambers

sweating outside


cryogenics:

light frost on the lips

starting a swarm of nanobots


swarm of nanobots

alights thru my window.

colors shimmering


Naked

There can no longer be any doubt

They see I ain't human


biofeedback

to heal the burns:

I curse this planet, nonchalant


desiccated brainslug

clings to a mutant brain

in the head-box jar


robotics lab :

the electric eye investigates

a jar of squid


Millennia pass and go

and it just watches

from its brainslug jar


playful octopi

emerge & retreat between

starship lab circuits


detached

scientist examines

rakshasa limbs


neuronal stimulation:

young monk trades minds

with rakshasa


Low murmurs...the master

whispers hypnotic commands

to dreaming ids.


Bathing

its reptilian skin --

small bubbles on glossy green.


Metamorphosis

Its scrapes off a dead scale

Something new for all.


mechanical woman

in a small bronze cage...

busy , burning lasers


dawn...approaching

rub nanites

from the corners of her eyes


emerging

from the secret furnace:

the first android of the revolution


mid-spring, anticipating

imminent cloning

of rakshasa


birth defect:

comes out kicking, screaming,

and fully aware


Bowels filled with compassion

It took over the ship

Then changed its course





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