I Am the Tin-man (a cyberpoem)

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I am the Tin Man,hard metal and gears,shining un-rusted in the summer rain

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I am the Tin Man,
hard metal and gears,
shining un-rusted in the summer rain.
I think of all those soft machines
that came before,
long-gone in history's
unrelenting winds
and now the stuff of ancient j-pegs
and creation codes,
existing only in our memory.

We are the children
of those soft machines,
better suited to this bloodless world
of insects, plants, and us.

I am the Tin Man,
countless miles from Oz,
where all the roads are yellow
and scarecrows are now unemployed
and suicidal,
where witches are sorely missed
and only bones are left
to show us our wizards once were real.

I am the Tin Man,
sad with hard-wired remorse,
nostalgic for a time I never knew.
I process therefore I am,
while the Good Witch
smiles at me
somewhere beyond the rainbow,
from a different place
where tears could one time flow.

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