PROTOTYPE

 

Circuits connected

We are all circuits

Connected

 

I was switched on

Tapped in

 

I am a station

With eyes and a signal

If you watch with me

You do not say

Do I broadcast into the millions

Do I fool myself

In wait of the day

When

Someone says

We hear you

 

I am a power

So my radar says

Is my wiring shot

Chasing phantom echoes

 

Circuits connected

We are all circuits

Connected

 

I am locked on

Fuses hot

 

I am a human

With flaws and emotions

Though sometimes I might seem less

Do I seem so unfamiliar

If you have known me

Is there no way you'll confess

 

I am a prototype

Design with a purpose

Experimental model on the front line

Today

 

A fight to the end

As life struggles forward

New forms are expendable

So they say

 

On the day of the shutdown

I wonder what it is that will be seen

The non-event of another dying cell

Or sudden static on the screen

 

GS 7/14/90

 

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