Robot Boy

Here’s a boy with robot arms
robot legs, a torso, head
and robot hands and robot feet
with robot fingers, toes complete
with robot nails and robot hair
robot eyes and even ears
made from metal, wrapped in flesh
cloned in tanks; a bio mesh
near real to touch or sound or sight
machine-made to mimic life

And here’s his house in cyberspace
with software walls and pixel plates
spoons, knives, forks and chairs
C+ carpets, paper wares
formed from numbers, binary
walls, roof, windows - touch and see
in virtual code, his virtual grass
beneath a virtual sky with stars
and piechart moon or Van Gogh sun
amalgamations made from sum
total, agreed perfect shapes
for perfect World in perfect space

See this robot boy’s square soul
formed by numbers, proved by math
His nil-one-nil mechanic heart
which simulates a love for art
for love, for life and colours: stark
white through black and spectrum ‘tween
falsified belief or beam
of robot gods and robot joy
to be a real, breathing boy

J. x