EROBOTIC ELEGY: A Cyborg Fantasy  

	"It's fantastic,"
	I said while gazing at her
	gold-plated instrument

	"Your engineering ain't bad either,"
	she chuckled while adjusting
	my control switch

	I've never encountered a being
	with more humor or skill at performing
	such an astonishing range of tasks.

	Whether data from a complex calculation
	was needed or simply an alluring glance
	the LOVE 700 unit responded
	in milliseconds - analysing many
	data streams and producing relevant
	responses before asked 	

	Without doubt
	the android I had come to love
	was superb in all respects

	Having already been with 48 cyborgs
	in 196 years that minor flaw
	was inconsequential.

	When the most recent upgrades came out
	I merely chuckled: I'm too attached
	to this LOVE 700 unit to change.

	How many humans relations
	have that level of
	loyalty?


Nadya: 	I pity humans who look to machines for intimacy . . .

Bill: 	Why should you? Humans are merely carbon-based machines.

Nadya: 	But an we expect compassion from machines?

Bill: 	(laughing) Well, look at human history: how much compassion have humans exhibited?


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from _Cyberpoems: Exploring the Human-Machine Interface_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A mutant poem about cyborg love, image of a genetically modified transhuman, and conversation about compassion.
KEYWORDS: cybernetic modeling, SF poetry, robotic love, transhumans, android affection, 
          pseudo-robotic poetry, genetically modified humans, erotic poems

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1997 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2016 in Shin-Taipei, Taipei
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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