6.17 / Science and Fiction Issue

Android

Benjamin Nash

Android
they will know what Freud
wanted to know
so
they can totalitarian
you with robotic
brain cells.

They will put microchips
into a crow
first,
later into you,
a few
and then many.

Android,
bionic
as you are,
if you complain about
freedom of conscience,
science,
they will say
lunatic.

Benjamin Nash is a new poet. He studied to be a political scientist, but has spent his last few years taking care of his daughter and reading poetry.