I, ROBOT
I sing my body electric… state-of-the-art
luxury sports utility vehicle of the species!
Nothing like me ever was! Built to last,
to take a licking
and keep on ticking…
Modeled on the redundancy principle--
extra brain hemisphere, superfluous kidney,
lung, eye, hand, foot, and five senses, each
with its software-bundled hardware connected
by spaghetti-tangles of fiber-optic nerves to
the mother of all boards! Every cell vacuum-packed
with its own copy of the spiro-encrypted, double-
helixed, micro-schematic blueprint, and every digit
stamped with its encrypted
swirl-pattern ‘scan code’!
Oh, I’m the quintessential, self-replicating,
self-healing, self-cleaning, psycho-medical
chemico-robotic Circuit City wonder— drop
me on an alien planet and watch: at one-tenth
brain capacity, I’ll invent the wheel, steal fire
from the Titans, change the water into wine,
clone myself, and when there’s enough of
me and enough time and typewriters…
we will compose
Hamlet!
I sing my body electric… state-of-the-art
luxury sports utility vehicle of the species!
Nothing like me ever was! Built to last,
to take a licking
and keep on ticking…
Modeled on the redundancy principle--
extra brain hemisphere, superfluous kidney,
lung, eye, hand, foot, and five senses, each
with its software-bundled hardware connected
by spaghetti-tangles of fiber-optic nerves to
the mother of all boards! Every cell vacuum-packed
with its own copy of the spiro-encrypted, double-
helixed, micro-schematic blueprint, and every digit
stamped with its encrypted
swirl-pattern ‘scan code’!
Oh, I’m the quintessential, self-replicating,
self-healing, self-cleaning, psycho-medical
chemico-robotic Circuit City wonder— drop
me on an alien planet and watch: at one-tenth
brain capacity, I’ll invent the wheel, steal fire
from the Titans, change the water into wine,
clone myself, and when there’s enough of
me and enough time and typewriters…
we will compose
Hamlet!
