Human.1

for Jim Thomas

It’s hards work to be human and live in a body as well
the touch of a hand on a cheek, the whisper of love
is so rare a treasure. Do we have to be better than best
as if we were blessed by the ugliest angel of death?
How do you measure the better-than-well? What well
do you dip for the water to wash you clean? What stream
of bits fits your chips to the spec of human point one?

I am a release candidate in beta test.
Better than the rest, my eduperson
xml conforms. Synthetic macro
phages scour polyester veins
for fat. In Kevlar skin I stroll the waste
of sentient war machines and pick depleted 
fissile stuff from the substandard Earth.