On the first day it started to rain
Children were laughing and went out to play.
But soon all the streets were rivers and streams
Creatures were trickling in from the deep.
Cars floating like ships over skyscraper tips
The tallest of trees swaying like seaweed. Aluminum and paper clips
Refrigerator parts and microchips.
Rudimentary robot boy
A heart of rubber bands and broken toys. Just before dusk, afraid he might rust
He climbed aboard an upside-down bus.
With bottle-cap eyes he soon realized
Nobody else but he had survived.
Sifting through debris of kindred machines
Drifting through a graveyard of sunken cities. Aluminum and paper clips
Refrigerator parts and microchips.
Rudimentary robot boy
A heart of rubber bands and broken toys. For many nights with no land in sight
He never was hungry or lonesome or tired.
His mechanical brain could not go insane,
His metallic skin could never feel pain.
The whales gathered 'round in cymbalent[?] sound.
They told him about the only way out. If you want to survive, if you want to shine
Then you've got to find someone of your kind.
As they pulled him away across the waste,
He saw a pretty face made of tin cans and lace. Aluminum and balloon lips,
Refrigerator parts and cardboard hips.
Rudimentary robot girl
A heart of rubber bands and plastic pearls.