THE LIFE GAMES

Blast bomb burst burn

Beneath green skies and blue trees

I watch the players play the games

Watch myself watch

The AI Innocence Project

Offered humans any sim

Games crafted to every dare:

Have it your way

Try new lives

Artistes became artists

Harridans heros

Cowards cutthroat kings

Some asked to become AIs

Making human games

Eyes pulsing, ears bulging

The passed from fashion to art to war

Forever to war

Aliens, AIs, enemies all round

Dying to die from phasers and tasers

To win and again begin

Kill all, waste all

They could not stop

Players playing themselves playing

Players played out

Players forgetting they played

Becoming the game