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The Robot's Passing

Ken Poyner
Poetry
Science Fiction

We all get shut down.
There comes a point where
Upgrades are too costly,
Where perhaps new technology
Requires a different chassis,
Or one processor will not work
With its newer replacements.
Sometimes with time, so many
Constituent parts go stale and
Need replacement, that surrendering
The entire unit is the better choice.
We might have input
But we do not make the decision.
A popular new subroutine might require
More memory than an older model
Was designed intentionally to hold.
No unit lasts forever.
Sometimes there is an active
Decommissioning, with parts taken
For spares, secondary storage saved.
Sometimes power is removed and the
Dark husk left in a garage or spare room.
For some, it is the crash and snarl
Of scrapping, an oblivion of residual elements.
It makes no sense to load a subroutine
To predict when or where:  it happens.
Go, and for now be glad.

                                                           


 

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Copyright 2012, Ken Poyner. All rights reserved.

Ken Poyner started out in print in the 70s, and is now enjoying the web.  He and his power lifter wife can generally be accessed through any browser.  His tastes run from edgy fiction to cow launching poetry to conflicted circuitry.

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