Let me say I am no android - my human appearance
is purely incidental since its always been that way; in
retrospect one may have had cause to claim a robot
guised as me engaged in a masquerade of pretence,
all too well it seems - nobody remembers an incident
better where automaton behaviour made more’n just
good sense over th’ mortal modicums of humanness
described as our central essence to essential failure
But it wasn’t me; I’ll claim my frailty is in being one of
th’ team who succeeded in an age of reason, yet still
stayed away from that pervasive limelight - we’d had
enough chances to claim notoriety were we android,
and y’ll see why we didn’t when th’ name of th’ game
meant you’d need get up there & do it again & again
© 21 July 2016, I. D. Carswell
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