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Look at those robots down there
holding their perfectly compatible partners,
analyzing their children for design flaws,
scooping fuel into cobalt-glazed bowls,
putting the day's credits on yesterday's debts
while other robots come and go,
some getting redesigned,
some getting scrapped,
their skeleton ground down and
thrown on the metallic topiary
to create sturdier blossoms
and sharper petals. And so,
rain beads on the houses and runs off again,
the heat sinks get hot and then cool again,
the old cemeteries in all their orderly profusion
grow over, forgotten and peaceful.
The robots drink their hot oil
before the quiet of night's recharging,
and in the morning wake in fresh amazement
from their randomized dreams.