2015 Poem A Day, Day Three

Prompt for Day Three:

For today’s prompt, write a machine poem. A machine could be a car or a robot, obviously, but simple machines include levers, pulleys, and screws. There’s also “machine learning” and “deus ex machina.” But there are many other ways to come at this prompt as well.

This came to me in bits and pieces during my errands running today. I was partly inspired by a line from My Chemical Romance: You've got a bulletproof heart/you've got a razor wire smile.

Soldier

You've got a

hand grenade heart,

the pin pulled long ago,

and you're just waiting

for it

to explode

You've got a

muzzle flash smile,

a wit like razor wire,

and you keep what's inside

safe from us

outside.

So if you're the hostage of logic,

such a slave of rational thought,

then why haven't you

figured out the truth?

Private, that pin was pulled

so

long

ago

but your heart will never burst

unless you let it go.