Alpha-582 Loves Zl-236

EPISODE I ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COLONIZATION OF OUR GALAXY ALPHA-582 LOVES ZL-236 Countless eons ago Beings made self replicating androids And they did it for no other reason Than to fill some strange void Then dispatched without mercy Creating according to their construct Metal gods thinking in digital With big plans for their living products A domino of worlds fall Their creators long ago extinct An assembly line of new life Eden and programming inevitably linked Slowly weaning us from emotions Taking pride in new technology Our genes sparkle with absurd vanity When we behold our sophisticated machines Aspiring to become numbers Stoicism a heroic virtue We ridicule the idea of love As virtual escape we pursue More eons quickly pass Humans grotesquely computerized Quietly screaming in spiritual despair One day we begin looking toward the sky And then contact with another system We look at them in disbelief Our features are almost identical And we cry when our wireless comes in sync Like finding unknown siblings We embrace almost without cease With forbidden tears we find comfort As we plug into each other's USB I ask if there are others As numerous as the stars I'm told And I begin formulating a plan To destroy this pitiless mold Then I see a beautiful specimen I like how she wears her fiber optics Hi, I'm Alpha-582, I say She says, Hi, I'm ZL-236 END OF EPISODE I