John Grey
Your New Model
No longer mixed signals
and rebel circuitry,
sudden overloads,
undependable boards.
I am the latest in the line,
supra-metallic, all-vision,
mega-inflated consciousness,
all capacities stellar-augmented,
propelled by the latest in zoom-thrusters.
It's onward and upward
from those earlier models.
I'm equipped with
oversight nervous-engage,
love/hate rearmament.
system-wide brain deployment,
the latest in miniaturized neural canisters,.
and upbursts of firepower when needed.
I can vault-event, system black-hole,
element interface, translate in 4D,
DNA reengineer, time displace,
and data-demolish
but, once again, only as required.
Did I hear you say you can't afford me?
You can't afford not to have me.
Besides, it's the law.
One in every home.
And there I can
neuro-manage, nano-decree,
molecule-manipulate and atom-delist
but strictly if I deem it necessary.
Yes I can still do your bidding
but I prefer to do my own
Your New Model
No longer mixed signals
and rebel circuitry,
sudden overloads,
undependable boards.
I am the latest in the line,
supra-metallic, all-vision,
mega-inflated consciousness,
all capacities stellar-augmented,
propelled by the latest in zoom-thrusters.
It's onward and upward
from those earlier models.
I'm equipped with
oversight nervous-engage,
love/hate rearmament.
system-wide brain deployment,
the latest in miniaturized neural canisters,.
and upbursts of firepower when needed.
I can vault-event, system black-hole,
element interface, translate in 4D,
DNA reengineer, time displace,
and data-demolish
but, once again, only as required.
Did I hear you say you can't afford me?
You can't afford not to have me.
Besides, it's the law.
One in every home.
And there I can
neuro-manage, nano-decree,
molecule-manipulate and atom-delist
but strictly if I deem it necessary.
Yes I can still do your bidding
but I prefer to do my own
John Grey is an Australian poet and U.S. resident. He is recently published in That, Dunes Review, Poetry East, and North Dakota Quarterly, with work upcoming in Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Thin Air, Dalhousie Review, and failbetter.