Machines

  • A complex organism
    Unique and full of potential
    A human being
    Body and mind together, an essential

    Assembled in a line on a factory floor
    Soft tissue will become hardened steel
    Are we losing our humanity?
    That which allows us to feel

    Piece by piece
    Find another part to replace
    Throw away a weak body
    Change the recognisable features of a face

    A control system to replace the brain
    Made of circuit boards and cables
    Integrating computer chips weaved with wires
    Altering our senses to not experience pain

    A fixation with technology
    Turning skin into silicone
    And bone into metal
    The blueprint for our biology

    Corrective surgery
    The manipulation of a gene
    Editing DNA is a precursor
    To man becoming machine


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