Redundant Poem by felix paintwhenpainted

behold the ancient metallic monstrosity!
eaten by rust with fierce ferocity!
a machine, ladies and gentleman!
nothing more, constructed to an engineers plan!
its face flashes with sad blue lights!
it even goes green when it frights!
every night, when it powers down...
it screams in its sleep! a terrible wailing sound!
fear not its magnetic claws!
or its gaping, giant jaws!

its too old....
its story has been told....
claws rusted and arms broken
teeth sawed off and spare parts for spoken

behold the museum of fading lives!
all redundant with the changing times!

maybe it fought wars
or made food for the poor
perhaps it saved kittens
or knitted mittens...
but now, it stays chained to this wall
broken in half, no longer tall
eyes glitter hopefully at passers-by
eyes that once beheld a trillion dying skies
parts falling out of their spots
screws coming loose as the metal rots
circuits in its computer brain
report and calculate its pain

ladies, and gentleman! this is just a machine!
what you see before you does not feel, does not dream!