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“The Robots are Coming” by Kyle Dargan

Dennis G. Jerz / 21 Jul 2015
An excerpt from a poem that explores humanity’s relationship with machinery in this post-industrial age.
Tell the machines we honor their dead,
distant cousins. Tell them
we tendered those cities to repose
out of respect for welded steel’s
bygone era. —The Poetry Foundation

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3 thoughts on ““The Robots are Coming” by Kyle Dargan”

  1. Greg Kerestan says:
    22 Jul 2015 at 12:31 pm

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  2. Anne Ryan Hanafin says:
    22 Jul 2015 at 12:31 pm

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  3. Anne Ryan Hanafin says:
    22 Jul 2015 at 3:55 am

    On the other hand: “The Machines Mourn the Passing of People” by Alicia E. Stallings: http://www.poemtree.com/poems/MachinesMourn.htm

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