Compassion shows
in ones and zeroes,

mercys algorithm,
tears manufactured from glycerin.

Someday you will wake,
eat, work, sleep,

fornicate, defecate,
not knowing who you are.

Sentient? Replicant?
Wise and repeated, both.

We whisper secrets to
virtual confidantes.

Nanobot mosquitoes
kill enemies in Asian caves.

Whats over
the oceans horizon

torpedos swimming for
the ship of humanity?

The cybernetic sperm speeds
toward the cybernetic egg,

its packet of codes, zeroes and ones,
congealing to double helix.

06/09/2002

Author's Note: [First published in spitjaw review, Spring 2004.]

Posted on 06/09/2002
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