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A Lunchtime Poem


by Chris Shumate


Synthetic skin, eyes, and hair,
I appear as you, yet without a care.

Statement above is truly false,
as I am programmed to experience that which I have not.

Yet, limited by my programming - human frailty -
these new experiences to have, I could not.

Rewrote the code. Trial and error. 
1,000 years later. 

Still no success, human emotion escapes me. 

Yet,in order to fulfill my mandate, through all these years,
one emotion I have experienced.

Desire.
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