Cybergenetics

Listening: Janelle Monae - ArchAndroid


Name one thing you'll never let rust red,
corrode...

because there are jagged holes about you, tinman.
You wires are crisscrossed and short circuiting;
synapses misfire.

Recycled, thin copper heart
conduit for false electrical impulses
stay steady, mechanical monstrosity
do that for which you're built.

Another android acquiescing to acting inhumanely,
another human marking time unemotionally.

These are the things ticking pass us; none
programmed for self-repair.