vi. robot robot

and they
replicated
eventually
they figured out
how to spread themselves,
how to take apart a Dodge
and build a 'bot, about
which the humans were
clueless as it were
without a comfort
without a means
to stop the
robotic
madness
descend
-ing up
-on the
earth.

robot, robot,
where you going?
robot, robot,
who created you?

as the created
contemplates that
which they created
to automate the work
needed because of the
curse, as they curse
under their breath
trying to figure
out what they
had loosed
upon the
world,
they
ex-
pire
with
em-
pire
fruitless
toil, wear
and tear and
the machines
multiplied.

robot, robot,
where are you from?
robot, robot,
why the reckless abandon?