“Megatron’s plan to graft the butt of a crane onto the butt of a missile carrier succeeded beyond expectations. And they called him mad!”
— TFWiki.net, 2016
Intergalactic scrap is good for nothing,
offline cyclonic steel coatings brittle
in deep space; grill guards, reactor linkages.
St Elmo’s Fire slinks across the bismuth
circuit shrapnel and turbochargers above us.
Whatever we have learned as old autonomous
robotic organisms across the vorns, we port
the zodiac energy, we feel it in our fan belts,
the winter on our thermochromic rubsigns.
Before the Battle of Technahar, four Circuit-Su
masters, matrix acolytes, crossed the metallic plains
to Siren’s old scissor door chasms, their piston-brows
lit by arcs of spark-spray. Through the warp of the gas:
the spitting churn, the turbofox-niobium floes of zodiac.
These same acolytes drank the blue magma of its secrets.
Computing the revelations, two bricked themselves,
drowning in End of Line errors. Two remained:
Sky Bolt and Wheel Trail to continue to war or
enter leadership mode ’til all were one after all
We are intergalactic, metallic number one in leadership.
You are scrap, drunk drowning deep spacefill to grill.
We are thermochromic floes, cyclonic, spark-spray steel.
You are autonomous magma mode to be.
We are zodiac masters crossed, scissoring the bismuth.
You are plain old same old robotic bricked up doors.
We are turbocharged secret fan belt Circuit-Su masters.
You are four rubsign errors, bolts in the churn.
We are the line of good energy in the computing matrix.
You are war-chasms, the turbofox circuit shrapnel slinking.
We are blue warp linkages, St Elmo’s Fire revelations.
You are brittle niobium coatings in learning mode.
We are spitting, reactor-lit pistons of the zodiac.
You are vorns of gas trails, nothing but an offline winter.
We are Technahar wheel battle, steel organisms of the sky.
You are continual sirens below the port side brow.
We are the arc of the zodiac, we complete the circuit after all
HARRY MAN won the 2014 Bridges of Struga Award for his pamphlet, Lift (tall-lighthouse, 2014), which was also shortlisted for a Saboteur Award. His website is www.manmanbooks.co.uk.