Cyborg scifaiku by Yvonne Aburrow
Gynoids
"Gynoids (n.): cybernetic organisms with female sexual characteristics (cf. android) from Greek, gyn-, a woman. Late 20th c. neologism." (Oxford English Dictionary, 2074 edition)
Metal Madonna,
be online for us now and
when we short-circuit.
Gynoids have to do
twice the work of androids to
be thought half as good.
Feminist gynoids:
seeking solidarity
with human sisters.
Androids
android football team
old injuries: seized pistons.
Twinges, cold mornings.
in android ghetto
football a means of escape:
dreaming of stardom.
Testing for implants -
bionic parts not allowed.
"Keep sport human."
Cyborgs
bio-engineers
link synapses of spun glass -
meltdown again
prototypes rebel,
plastic morphs into strange shapes,
evolving too fast
when my circuitry
is broken, colours and shapes
blurring and swirling
body modified
for zero-g: octopoid
fingers and toes
cyber-sooterkin
web-generated haunting
lurks in my hard-drive
a votive candle
reflected in polished bronze -
grove of steel pylons
with each implant
a little more circuitry,
a little less soul
Nanobot wars
can nanobots cross
the blood-brain barrier?
no known antidote
a broken treaty,
the First Law of Robotics
- haemoglobin mines
immune system gone,
ravaged by nanobot wars
- injecting backup
rebuilding the brain
for the final solution -
hindbrain overload
victorious 'bots
regroup, reform, specialise:
symbiosis.
Symbiosis and the origins of life