Robot Dreams

When androids lay down their heads at night,
And they put their processors to sleep,
And shut off to recharge,
Do they dream like I do?

Do they have nightmares like me?
Do they count electric sheep?
Do their 'lectric eyes go through rapid cycles,
Amid all the background tasks and system checks?

Are their dreams strange like ours,
Full of abstract math and bizarre physics,
That warps the limits of space and time,
And leaves us groggy in the morning?

James Hamill is an Entertainment Art Technician and writer from Southern California. He has had a handful of poems published in the anthology, I Like Robots; on the crime poetry blog, The Five-Two; as well as in the Aphelion Webzine. He considers the humble burrito to be mankind's single greatest scientific achievement.

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