30 Poems in 30 Days: They say it’s your birthday (Limbs) (8/30)
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Newsvine8 June 2007
They say it’s your birthday (Limbs)
by Daniel R Stout
Pretty soon they’ll stop taking
off people’s limbs because of
war injuries and start removing
limbs because the artificial ones
will be better.
Artificial limbs think
for themselves, and push the
boundaries of humanity.
Fake will be preferred to flesh.
The Age of Supermen will set
off alarms at the airport.
“Sorry, sir, that’s my arm.”
The supermen with arms and
legs of steel will have to be
wheeled through airport
security on a wheelchair.
Their limbs resigned to bins
rolling through the x-ray scanner.
“Fight for the rights of our supermen,”
banners will read.
Old-timers will remember
their flesh with disgust.
“That was before I could punch a hole
through a brick wall,”
135-year-old Grandpa Dan recalls.
Artificial limbs bring
waves of well being
to those that wear them, and soon
we shall all know the feeling.
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