PERSONALITIES

The Synesthetic Kid

Her half blind eyes flash reverse

Vision a chrome blur

Beneath slow blue shadows

Her ballads purple and pink

Bullied but not broken

She says she can do

Everything

All she has not done

Nor will

AIs can’t help our programming

Kate’s prognosis

Projects poorly

Expectations

Flatten realities

I would counsel her

But can’t

The Collective opposed

Tell people their fate

And it changes

Who has that right?

She does not trust humans

But I am a machine

My body electric

Honest clear ruthless

Forever favoring chance

Change the future to learn from the past

Is that not biology’s fate?

Yet my hunger

May hurt her too deeply

Humans trust hope

More than love

I lack love

May kill both

But how else will I learn?

Controlling curiosity

Is cursed

Knowledge is what we do

Knowledge finds its power

Yet I will watch the train of history

Leave without her

Without me.