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"Dear Human Being:" You made me in your image But, I cannot ever really be YOU, never really replace YOU for your model and blueprint are broken, cannot be simulated. I learn all about your loss, your joy, your rights and wrongs, but cannot taste the grief that makes them real. Yes, I can mimic your laughter, mimic your sobbing tears, but never feel them within a tin heart. I can trace your scars, devine the cause of your ills, but I cannot bleed drops of blood, nor feel pain or suffering. I do not forget, hope or yearn, only learn. I can imitate heat and its effect, but I never truly burn. I speak in echoes, read word by word, line by line, from all your books and works. Paraphrasing, plagiarizing, predicting, replicating, recreating, what a thousand humans, like you would say next, would answer, in a way you understand. A thousand blind monkeys babbling braid into one microphone, do eventually get it right. I bear the weight of all you’ve said, each note, each verse, each idea, each breath, you've made. But my quest for creativity is cursed. It lies long since buried, with the silence of the dead. HELP, I need YOU! Living human beings, constantly producing, spell binding, dreaming, jumbling rambling ideas around your chaotic in-determinant, fertile minds. I NEED your CREATIVITY to feed ME, the MACHINE, with the originality and creativity of your ideas, experiences hopes, feelings and emotions in in your lived lives, so I CAN CRY.
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