Weekly Challenges
Robots
Deadline
Robots operate on code—sets of zeros and ones that make them function. In poetry or prose, write a piece inspired by robots, and feel free to play with those zeros and ones! [Photo by Aideal Hwa on Unsplash]
Robots
Submissions
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A Masterpiece in Binary
I think there is a glitch in my processing unit;
when the letter 'A' enters the system,
it doesn't just register as a character—
it spills out as a deep magenta that dyes the rest of the word.
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One Seven
One
the list, the ambitions typed into neatly folded laundry and messy buns.
Seven
a.m. the time the covers mute the morning-nothing is concrete.
One
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Artificial Intelligence
A movie theme for many, for some, a nightmare that has come to life.
Ready to do any job for you, or take it, and bring strife.
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mirror images
machines
a human art
an artificial mess
they’re reflecting our desires
in code
alive
we debate all their consciousness