And Everyone Realized That the Characteristics of a Human Being Were Simply a Balance of That of Animal and Machine...

_{Sonnet IV:} Of The Machinations of Anthropos

_{Steady manipulation of the mind-machines}

_{Simply further the ongoing process}

_{Inculcating sight miscalculation}

_{Into the decorum of our conquest}

_{Systematic slight, ungodly marvel}

_{A medaled man, with metal man in hand}

_{Who presumes to bear, alter, maneuver}

_{A biological Automaton?}

_{Endowed with syncretic, unthinking mind}

_{Contemporary little humanoid}

_{Would oblivion, be thy holy name?}

_{Bless your shameful circuitry, Amnestia}

_{Give birth to mankind's malfunctioning curse}

_{Wholly corrupt, each, his earthly concourse}