All A Draff

All a draff 
a draft
raking thru
the dregs
adrift
adrift

I am not a robot
Motorcycles
Traffic Lights
Buses Adrift
No schedule
No route map

To the Dark
Sidereal
I am not
Art I Fish All
and dreg up
cups bottom

Cross Walks
To & fro
each cross
its own horizon
where the sky
meets the water

geometric requirements
Social Skills
(any skills
for that matter)
Marriage Classes
Reading Glasses

I had a friend
Who had a friend
I did
befriend
But that's not how
I then met you

They were discussing
Punctuation &
Grammar by which
They meant
To say nothing of
The Endgame

Which caused me
To think of you
Your dust at sea
All along the edge
Where things fall
Off the way things go

and pile up
one thing
on top of
another
akimbo
a draff

adrift
nimble-fingered
tho rathe
rather nippy
nimble
masterly

Anyway we
We were talking
About what
Hard to know
A flow
Of pics & tics

That's not true
What I sd earlier
When I sd I am
Not "a machine resembling
a human being and able
to replicate certain human
movements and functions
automatically.

'the robot closed the door behind us'"

I am a robot
Forced to crawl
Adrift across
Back and forth
Sweeping up
After you

Pic after pic
Falling
Failing
Fishing
Adrift
A draff draft

A daff
Salt water
Taffy
"she told me that my music
was perfectly wonderful,
and taffy like that"

"according to R.U.R. management
the robots
do not 'like'anything."
Are you are
or Are you not
a robot

I'm not now
Sure
But years
Have pissed
And still
I'm here a bit

But true a
Drift a draft
Replaceable
In War with the Nerds
Dork and Dweeb
Figure prominently

Dwork wants
To go Rome
Deeb reminds
They don't have
Stars on their
DL's

Here a bit
There a bot
Everywhere
A bit bot
To boot
To turn up

A turnip
In yr pocket
Proves yr not
A total android
A mess on some
Scientist's bench

Turn on
Tune in
Drop out
"During his last decade, Leary proclaimed the 'PC is the LSD of the 1990s' and re-worked the phrase into 'turn on, boot up, jack in' to suggest joining the cyberdelic counterculture."

Drift on
Draft in
Draff out
Right on
Write stuff
Write Off


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