The Starlight SciFaiku Review, Spring 2023 (issue #3)

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25. Poetry by Robin Rose Graves


Robot & other poems

Robot

Forever Idle
At last battery bleeds dry
Empty Metal Shell

A. I.

Delete Memories
Delete core program functions
Until nothing left

Android

Dismantled in parts
One by one pawned for tokens
Nothing left to spend

Cyborg

Treated like metal
Despite my humanoid face
My heart beats and bleeds

Frankenstein

These are not my hands
Not my lips which you last kissed
New eyes view old friends

Zombie

Consumed by hunger
He eats without discretion
Feasting on friend’s flesh

Robin Rose Graves

Robin Rose Graves is a science fiction writer and poet. Previous works of hers have appeared in Dark Matter Magazine, Star*Line and Simultaneous Times Podcast. She is an editor at Android Press and a frequent contributor to the Galactic Journey. She runs the science fiction BookTube channel, The Book Wormhole.