New Year Resolutions

New Year Resolutions

 

Prolog: 

Any pompous aspiration, either

from the left-over of a tradition or

a new, night-grown, cheap fashion,

is a disguised selfishness fattened

and nurtured by artificial food.

 

News: 

The Japanese just invented the latest

robot that can be a pleasant company,

opening doors, fetching newspapers,

dialing 911, and even speaking your language

in case you are lonely at home.

 

Robot with an almost-human-intelligence!

Or, maybe, visa versa? It can answer all

your wishes and dry greetings better than

the next-door neighbor. It’s programmed

to love you back! And the best feature is

“No strings attached!”

The ideal human without a soul!

 

To wish someone the possession

of a robot slave might be the best

New Year resolution, I imagine.

A wise investment that guarantees

to balance your emotion and depression.

 

You can ignore it, mock it, insult it, slap it,

kick it, kiss it, cheat it, lie to it and

if one day you are sick of it, you can

smash it or sell it to an antique shop.

Who knows what else you can do with it.

 

So, this is another New Year. Let’s

send each other empty loving words,

tongue in cheek, pretending there is no

suffering in tortured countries, no disaster

in corrupted lands, no killing of the soul

under our very noses. Let’s repeat again:

 

Today is a new beginning! [Of what?]

A new beginning of Hi-Intel Robots?

The beginning of what’s already dead?

The fact:

Nothing will change!

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Say it, and you won’t get slapped.

 

Muse: 

But, what if a robot could say

really nice words and smile?

What if the robot had a really

sexy voice and watery sad eyes?

What if it had a temperature like yours?

What if we could push our science

and Hi-Tech a little further?

 

Monologue:

Well, forget the speaking robot.

Tomorrow is just another day.

I will face it like any other day.

I’ll get up early and feed the birds.

I’ll eat a hearty breakfast before I head out

and try to smile more and laugh

with you reminding each other

we are one more year wiser.

 

+

Z.Z. 2006

by水滴 发表评论于
Happy New Year to Everyone!

Hi, ZZ: I am very impressed by your paint! Good sense of color blender, mood lifting, abstract painting..:) Did you teach yourself? Did you use computer to draw?
LTG 发表评论于
hi y.y.,

like the miller quote...!!! he was a great prophet!!!!

hi z.f.,

can't agree with you more.....thanks for the feedback!!!!

Correction:

line12: "visa versa" should be "vice versa"....(spellcheck failed me again:)
知凡 发表评论于
Monologue:


Well, forget the speaking robot.

Tomorrow is just another day.

I will face it like any other day.

I’ll get up early and feed the birds.

I’ll eat a hearty breakfast before I head out

and try to smile more and laugh

with you reminding each other

we are one more year wiser.


[Love the Attitude!!
thank you for the wonderful New Year Resolutions!!
Art and Poetry not only make us become more clever and more acute but also better, happier and stronger...

it is not hard for women to distinguish humans from robots....:))

Poetry is mystery.
A good poem should
make you “feel” good
about yourself, the world
all around.
...

thank you for sharing your good poems...

Happy New Year!!
]
影云 发表评论于
thanks . . . i was not kidding either :)

also this poem reminds me of what Miller says, "i often say that we are living in a world of dead people, dead from the neck up"
LTG 发表评论于
that's a good one!!!!

:)

seriously....
影云 发表评论于
resolutions for spiritual freedom... not for NEW YEAR, but for every day . . .
:)

cheers!!!
作舟诗集 发表评论于
it is getting hard to distinguish

humans from robots....

thus, the observation ... :)

thanks, y.y. for reading and feedback!!!

hope you got better "resolutions"...

:)

cheers!!!
影云 发表评论于
really love this poem!!!

satirical!!!powerful!!!

also sad ...

"It’s programmed
to love you back! And the best feature is
'No strings attached!'
The ideal human without a soul!"

is It newly-invented smartest robot
or just a modern man losing a soul?

we can enslave ourselves as easily
as do a robot


love the Muse stanza very much - - - thought provoking . . .


love the form of this poem tooooo!!! very natural matching to the contents!!!

let me read it over and over!!!
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