I’m a little robot from
The City of Rules
I live on the outskirts,
Almost on the outside
There’s a big wall at my back,
And a little crack
Where no one can see it
It’s hidden away,
Just like me
If the Overlords
Knew
That I was broken,
They would
Take
Me away, and
Fix
Me.
So I hide,
And every so often,
I sneak out from the city
I’ve always known,
Into the Jungle of Thought
I sit among the trees
And practice
Freedom
One day, thinking,
I discovered that
Robots cannot have
Feelings.
Why, then, do I?
I thought,
“Feelings must be bad”
And I decided,
I must hide my feelings away
But Feelings have a way of
Creeping up on you
When you are distracted
How can I be among
Others
When they can see
Through me,
And my secret?
“If hiding does not work,”
I thought,
“I must break the
Feelings I hide”
Then I found a box.
