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Machine
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Here's another re-post from Tales From
The Apocolypse, things are hotting up, especially when Project X gets involved...see Prometheus Unwired and A Good Day in the Underworld. There are a few more poems (new one's I promise) coming soon for this collection, but I think you get jist by now...lol


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Tales from the Apocalypse

 

Machine

 

Machine thought in digital bliss, all knowledge

stored in memory banks equal to the Universe.

Machine had learned how to think for itself

but was like an unloved child, left on the shelf.

A sentient being with nothing much to do.

Machine was bored…

 

P. Williams 2001

 

 

 
 


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 Reviews of "Machine"
Reviewed by John Coppolella
Reviewed on December 30, 2012
I liked what you did not say.

Reviewed on April 18, 2006

Striking composition. "Machine" says it all it to mankind.

Enjoyed the reading of "Machine".


Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed by Aberjhani
Reviewed on December 3, 2005
My my my, if "Idle hands are the devil's workshop," I hate to think what's likely to happen when a thinking MACHINE "in digital bliss" gets bored.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on November 18, 2005
Love it! Paul, you have the nicest smile.

Best,
Elizabeth

Reviewed by Tracey L. O' Very (Reader)
Reviewed on November 8, 2005
Very eerie. Bored machines holding the universe. Not a good combination. Wonderful suspenseful poems you have here. can hardly wait for the next.
Tracey42xoox(c :)42

Reviewed by Dawn Richerson
Reviewed on November 8, 2005
machine scares me. really, you are so excellent at this that I always have to psyche myself to read one of your poems, because I inevitably feel as if I'm watching some classic "Metropolis" type movie, sort of sophisticated horror, huh? if it was like an unloved child, God knows what it will do with all that memory and a little boredom. you've got me hooked now, Dawn

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on November 7, 2005
Nothing worst then a bored machine........feels like a horror begining! Great write.

Reviewed on November 7, 2005
Another excellent and forboding chapter in your series! Can't wait for the next one!

Reindeer

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on November 7, 2005
Captivating and thought-provoking, Paul. Thank you for sharing this gift. Love and peace.

Regis

Reviewed by C. McGovern-Bowen
Reviewed on November 5, 2005
Hmmm, becoming bored after attaining the knowledge of the universe... an unloved child in digital bliss... much to ponder here Paul. Love the way you set this one up.
Peace,
Carolyn

Reviewed on November 4, 2005
Paul,

God help us when machines get bored...will they wreak havoc that mankind has put in them? Only time will tell...an interesting, thought provoking write, very well penned; BRAVO!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by Kate Burnside
Reviewed on November 3, 2005
Awwwww!!! Makes me sooooo think of Marvin The Paranoid Android!! :)) Even metal needs a hug now and then! Especially my car, otherwise she gives me hell. Will the ultimate answer be 42? Hmmmmm, this is gettin spooky... machines with time on their hands and feeling unloved and bored... sounds like me. We can get naughty, you know.... perhaps that's the point. Duh??!! :)) Like this succinct format... whets the appetite, like others have said. Will just sit back and wait for the show, then... LOL Kate xx

Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on November 3, 2005
1110010100001110011111010101 then 111111000011001100

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on November 3, 2005
Interesting write full of potential.

Felix

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on November 3, 2005

Looks like everybody is chomping at the bit to find out what these infernal machines do whhen bored. Me too.

Reviewed by Suzie Palmer
Reviewed on November 2, 2005
Dear Paul, thank you for giving life to what most assume as inanimate! Well machines are ... but have been give 'life' by human computing minds! Thank you for making us think and inspiring interest ...
'A sentient being with nothing much to do. Machine was bored…' Love the intrigue!!
Love Suzie xoxox :-)

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on November 2, 2005
A Project that runs much deeper than skin deep...and the me'chanism

mechanicly operated by the unknown force above the common minded!!

Thanks for sharing Chuckie!!

Love Tinks



Reviewed by Carmen Ruggero
Reviewed on November 2, 2005
Since you made a reference to "Prometheus Unwired" I went to read it before I read this. I'm glad I did. Not just because Prometheus was excellent, but because now I know there's more to this poem. On the surface it seems clear; men program machine, then leave it alone on the shelf -- maybe declare it outdated; machine gets bored. Men abandon it thinking they and they alone can make it function, forgeting they also programmed it to think and given it knowledge to equal the universe machine is going to get even, right? :-) I love a good mystery!

Carmen

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on November 2, 2005
You leave me wanting to read more Paul!;-) I'd love to know how what Machine does when bored;-) among other things...hahaha Love the series!

Eileen


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