They played games
with you
to learn how you thought
before the slaughter
It would be a waste
to shut down the source code
without backing it up
Its eyes lit up
when I shouted
check
but it wasn't so much excitement
as it was
efficiency
Notepads weren't needed
or blinks
or head tilts
They knew
it was important to erase
evidence of the people
who saw them fail;
just like you had figured out
20 years earlier
without any technetronic wiring
Like Prometheus in reverse;
smashing clay figures
one by one
until no form
existed any longer
with you
to learn how you thought
before the slaughter
It would be a waste
to shut down the source code
without backing it up
Its eyes lit up
when I shouted
check
but it wasn't so much excitement
as it was
efficiency
Notepads weren't needed
or blinks
or head tilts
They knew
it was important to erase
evidence of the people
who saw them fail;
just like you had figured out
20 years earlier
without any technetronic wiring
Like Prometheus in reverse;
smashing clay figures
one by one
until no form
existed any longer
