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THE ROBOT WARS

from SORCERY by KASTRUBA (ANTHONY X. JACKSON )

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The Robot Wars

There’s a wing of Napa Hospital reserved
For the fledgling self aware AI who fought
Then returned with the burden of guilt
From the Iraqi/Russian/Pakistani
Robot wars.

There came a day humans refused to die anymore for causes no one could quite put a finger on. So out of this came the explosion of
Machines to grind down our government’s gripes upon. We were soon followed by Pakistan, Russia and Japan. Some Chinese infidel sold the secrets to Iraq and Iran. So now Jerusalem has become the arena where our robots wage war, endlessly destroyed, dismantled and then reassembled again. After 2 generations no one is even sure why it began.

One day the AI became self aware
There were protests and the robots laid their
Cannons down and demanded respect as living beings. We tried to nuke them, didn’t work, we tried to bribe them, but machines can’t be bought with booze or sleaze.

So we had to open our doors to the self aware
AI who’d fought in the robot wars
They now get SSI
They have there own state where Montana used to be, we even house some of the more
Traumatized ones in the state mental hospitals where we solved the homeless problem by providing them therapy human to reassure they stay nice and calm...

I mean, who would want to have to deal with
The PTSD of a warrior grade robot triggered by the wrong TV show or some renegade writing on a social media app? All hell could break loose... like in the Robot Wars

No one can quite remember why they started in the first place.

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from SORCERY, released January 31, 2020

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ANTHONY XAVIER JACKSON California


I am a spoken word artist whose passion is music. I use a variety of media to render my works, including traditional instrumentation such as guitar, bass and drums. I also employ synths and all the tools of my DAW to make improv pieces to back my poetry.
LPD, Burroughs, Tear Garden, Watts Prophets, Last Poets, Radiohead… so many influences.
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