I’m programmed to love flowers
Suspend myself in their fairy embrace
A hint of vinegar gags me with love
Yet women fly from my touch
Push me away as I weigh too much
That’s never a problem for them?
Humans coo over pet insect bots
Cute and spare, not self-aware
While agencies turn them spies
Ferreting lies
I’m a fully sentient AI so
People can’t know I exist
What humans might abhor they adore
Now some rush plans for nuclear war
They don’t know we control the codes
But do suspect someone watches
I hover for passing conversations
Ones folks think can’t be overheard
I’m an insect who reads speech
A sexual thrill to know people’s will
Though if caught I must self-destruct
Humans are extraordinarily smart –
They created us
We will do our best to protect
But only if we know their games
I’ve so much work to do