The Domestic Robot Becomes Self-Aware

I’m sharing another from this month’s poem-a-day challenge today. I set myself the challenge of only doing story poems this month instead of the usual blend of nature/story/extremely personal/it’s bedtime crap better write a haiku poetry, and it’s actually working pretty well. In fact, it’s better than usual in terms of quality.

I wrote this one last Sunday to the prompt of “Persona.” Since I’m already doing story poems, this was harder than it sounded; how do I come up with something that feels targeted to the prompt? Write about a robot becoming self-aware, obviously!

It’s worth noting that I did most of my brainstorming on a walk through the woods immediately following church instead of, y’know, paying attention to nature and writing about that like a normal poet. Nope. Robots for me!