012022c

clockwork not bones
and muscle inside her chest
feeling rundown

092119d

When his partner was repossessed, he was left with one male and one female offspring. But he scarcely had time for children, usually renting them out, except for a few Saturday picnics and ball games. Until the nannybot sued for custody. And won. But the sim kids by then were such accurate simulacra, he hardly noticed.

050917

Andromeda Gate

I've uploaded a copy of myself
to an android
she said
and I bought the
Kama Sutra Unleashed™ plug-in

you'll be fine
that's all I am
to you anyway

and I stood in front
of the Gate for a long time
not seeing the wheel
& its blue glow
but her
as she'd been in the Habitat
where we both
went to school

and I couldn't understand
how I'd
come
from that
to
this

those institutional walls

his android concubine
thought only of his welfare
she kept him safe