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Chef Golem

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These steel boulders ooze edible rust
as a blessed homage to those of us
who slept with iron when greed was lust.

We worship blind electric whales
- our future bleeds, our backs we flail -
we work on ingredients tied to their rails.

The oil of heat, in metal, on meat,
instead of a taste, it gives us the speed
to feed every dirty coin with a heartbeat.

Mine are the limbs inside the machine.
Mine are the hymns it hums on a whim,
rhymes so human they are nearly a sin.
My 7th poem in this series.
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We worship blind electric whales
- our future bleeds, our backs we flail -
we work on ingredients tied to their rails


i love the first line of this stanza but the next two seem redundant. I got the dystopic future part from the beginning so those lines seemed unnecessary there.

Loved these lines:

Mine are the limbs inside the machine.
Mine are the hymns it hums on a whim,
rhymes so human they are nearly a sin.


robots rock :salute: