be polite
look both ways
never show anger
always smile
words and beliefs
imbeded into the
hard-drive of
average society
robots made to look
like us glide through
the factory on a
convayer belt and
given the standard
smile, teeth, eyes
heart, body, brain
they are shipped off
from the make line
and settle in neat
little mini economy
neighborhoods
with too green lawns
and white picket fences
they are placed among
us at work and school
to cure the virus known
as the human condition
we see their sick and
perverted version of
normalcy and follow
their example
fearing our own desease
while officials laugh at
our niavity, our lives
documented in some
high and mighty
governmental
filing cabnet
Author notes
The human condition is nothing to fear. We all have our own versions of the virus.
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Comments
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Very good write. Unbeknownst to many this is basically describing many people of today, we are all copies of one another.
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Great Write
Wow, this is quite creepy. I love suffering from 'the human condition'. I really enjoyed reading this, it's certainly a disturbing thought, robot spies put in among us to make us normal. But no one is ever normal, in fact it would be completely abnormal to be normal. The media and even people we see on an everyday basis tell us what we should and shouldn't be 'healthy, happy, NORMAL', but why should we be things?
"hard-drive of
average society" I love the idea of society as being a machine with data and a hard-drive. It is hard to relate to it and its robot 'people' which makes it all the more poignant and effective.
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