My Robot and Me

My robot has sinews

Hanging from his teeth

Blood greases his jaws

My robot

He runs on meat

My neighbors call

When they catch him lurking

In the shadows near their homes

And they look out their windows

And gasp as they see

My robot

Feeding at night

He plays with the children

During the day

Lifting them up to dunk

But sometimes they flinch

When he leaps toward a squirrel

Imagining

That it was their cat

My robot has sensors

Coming out of his head

They pick up signals from our brains

He sits by my bedside

As I fall asleep

And he shudders

Then dreams he could cry