Robots don\u2019t believe in ghosts, they attribute
\nthe wheezing and clicking of late-night phantoms
\nto faulty streetlights and glitches on the power grid.
\nIf a ghost were to present itself to a robot, the robot
\nwould be able to dissect the apparition
\nas some clich\u00e9d space-time anomaly,
\nsomething broken in the universe
\nquickly mended by the natural order of the fabric of space
\nmending itself.
\nThere would be no need to haunt a world peopled by robots. <\/p>\n
In a world run by machines,
\nghosts would find themselves
\ncompletely explained or dismissed.
\nThe shadows of what we were
\nwould phantom hang or drown or stab ourselves
\nnight after night, scream for an audience
\nthat never feared or learned fear
\nbut only calculates and classifies who an apparition belonged to
\nand why the ghost is a reappearing specter.
\nThe grave sites will be kept up with meticulous detail,
\nflowers will be replaced, any new revelations
\nwill be catalogued and stored and examined
\nin cold but sufficient detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Holly Day Robots don\u2019t believe in ghosts, they attribute the wheezing and clicking of late-night phantoms to faulty streetlights and glitches on the power grid. If a ghost were to present itself to a robot, the robot would be able to dissect the apparition as some clich\u00e9d space-time anomaly, something broken in the universe quickly… <\/p>\n