826 on 8/26 http://www.826on826.org Be an 826 student for a day! Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:05:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Love Is Like Steel http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/love-is-like-steel/ http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/love-is-like-steel/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:00:11 +0000 Jordan Berry http://www.826on826.org/?p=3370 Whatever alloy you may be,
You’re the only fembot I want to see,
The pixelated corneas in your robotic eyes,
Shine brighter than a computer generated sky,
I believe in love as a calculation,
You make me feel more alive than a charging station…..

]]> http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/love-is-like-steel/feed/ 0 Tyler Perry’s “Oil,” a poor attempt at spoken word http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/tyler-perrys-oil-a-poor-attempt-at-spoken-word/ http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/tyler-perrys-oil-a-poor-attempt-at-spoken-word/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:59:54 +0000 Simon J. HiMom http://www.826on826.org/?p=3368 Oil–
slick, winding
through my curving
gears.

A
clank, clacking
of the engine’s
beat.

I
break, stuttering,
without this grease.
Flow.

Like
rock– living,
yet dead, I
move.

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But when I see you;
My circuits don’t know what to say;
And when I see you;
All my circuits light up this way.

]]> http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/all-my-circuits/feed/ 0 They can’t make me http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/they-cant-make-me/ http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/they-cant-make-me/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 05:23:07 +0000 Carol Tang http://www.826on826.org/?p=3357 They can program me to make widgets.
They can program me to stay awake.
They can program me to power down.
But they can’t make me love you less.

]]> http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/they-cant-make-me/feed/ 0 Robot Love http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/robot-love-4/ http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/robot-love-4/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 05:23:03 +0000 Jeff Capaci http://www.826on826.org/?p=3355 Continue reading →]]> My dear love,
To show my love for thee I shall compare you to the things I love
Your personality is as dry as the arizona desert
Your skin is as cold as a popsicle
Your eyes are as bright as a full moon in the midnight sky
You are never upset, as if you were programmed to love my imperfections.
I want to be togther and eventually rust away with you

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I feel the warmth and the light
The way it shines off your face
I wish to hold you so tight

Now that I can feel, I know the breeze of wind
The way it cools my steel
And makes your hair fly away
Oh how great it is to feel

And now that I can feel, I know love
I know your blinding beauty
I dream of the day you’ll have me
To be yours is beyond satisfactory

Now I know I want just you
Beep bop bee bop boo

]]> http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/now-that-i-can-feel/feed/ 0 Monologue (“Machine in Your Hand” by The Magnetic Fields, background music) http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/monologue-machine-in-your-hand-by-the-magnetic-fields-background-music/ http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/monologue-machine-in-your-hand-by-the-magnetic-fields-background-music/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 05:22:55 +0000 Diana A. Seaglass http://www.826on826.org/?p=3349 Continue reading →]]> Your eyes
are in all
my zeroes;

let me
be all ones
for you.

No human could be
one hundred percent yours
like I can. Mechanical devotion
sounds bad (I’ve got it),
but to the core, your image is
unreprogrammable, a bug
I’ll never melon-ball out.

See the pulse
in my screen:
that thrum,
its constant beat.

How I glow for you,
know all numbers (news & facts) for you
let me draw a map for you,
here, to me, in your hand, all this time.

]]> http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/monologue-machine-in-your-hand-by-the-magnetic-fields-background-music/feed/ 0 Grace http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/grace/ http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/grace/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 03:15:57 +0000 Tom O'Dowd http://www.826on826.org/?p=3341 Continue reading →]]> You are wired for rigid analysis but you embody fluidity–like mercury.
You accept only raw inputs but you produce such elegant imagery.
When I turn you on you warm up the room with your high definition smile.
When I turn you off, I can’t wait for you to reboot again.

You know what I want when I ask for it,
You remind me of dates when I forget,
You play me board games when I am bored,
And you never, ever burn my coffee.

With such a level of intimacy, there is nothing to say but I love you.
With such benevolent circuitry, you have nothing to say but I love you too.

Man to Grace and Grace to man.
My wish is your command.

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Fell in love to the sound of electric drills.
Danced to heavy metal, Nine Inch Nails and Nickelback
Lived in the Pig Iron District
Worked at Ford in the assembly rack.
His mother was a Swiss Watch
Her father rode the rails
They watched RoboCop every evening
And made love on a bed of nails.

]]> http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/robot-love/feed/ 0 Johnny 5 Longs For Stephanie http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/johnny-5-longs-for-stephanie/ http://www.826on826.org/2012/08/johnny-5-longs-for-stephanie/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:00:51 +0000 X Tariq http://www.826on826.org/?p=3338 Continue reading →]]> Love
An emotion which I thank strongly for having
And a sensation I have felt greatly these past months

Thou name is love
Ever since I saw you
infatuated was I
Ever since you rescued me
From hostile “associates” of mine
I still remember that night in vivid detail
Not that I was afraid of course
However, I was moved by your joyous devotion
No one had shown that much passion before
Not even my creator

And the times afterwards
When we traveled across the world
In unison, evading my captors
Those seeking to harm or belittle us
Those not willing to understand
And those wishing to misuse me
For their own selfish desires
My love and feelings for you
Grew tenfold in fervor

To be together with you without strife
My greatest desire in this world that is
As man and machine…
As true partners and lovers

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