The Lonely Robot

Having ended all life

absorbed all other robots

ruler of the cosmos

she walks into the sunset

but there is no darkness

her laser-gaze is itself a weapon

and no sleep defends her from the nightmare of oblivion

so she wakes a new world made entirely out of lightwaves

memories of movies, and chance determinations

then she watches random characters and situations

endless combinations with very little input

but she sees the ending

every clock finds its equilibrium

so she introduces the absurdest contradictions

anything can follow, but the actors can't believe that

so they keep pretending the script is real and means things

so the lonely robot, with no feeling for the actors

just erased the whole thing

- which, true, had not existed

and a trillion stories all came abruptly to a non-ending

and a trillion people suddenly stopped non-existing

thus was born a new world from the movies of the old one

and the lonely robot was given non-existence