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Rated: E · Book · Entertainment · #2268464
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#1028912 added March 14, 2022 at 11:09am
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Pygmalion
Pygmalion

She stares back at us,
the automaton future,
her face a cold, metallic
and careless sheen,
blameless in cruelty,
blueprinted design,
the mirror to our dream,
tomorrow’s conscious intent.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 03.14.22
Prompt: Illustration of the robot’s face from the film
Metropolis.


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