Lana Grey- A Poem

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Metal heart thrumming beneath synthetic skin,

crisscrossing wires winding a web of veins,

arteries, capillaries.

I am alive.

Whispered words from creators’ tongues—

“Can she feel?” “Can she fear?”

“Artificial Intelligence,” they call it.

To her, it is simply “thought.”

I am alive.

The notion is inexplicable, stranger than the nanites

igniting like finite suns to endow her with strength

enough to snap these fleshy gods.

Lana Grey was born and raised in Illinois, and she currently studies English/Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She intends to pursue an MFA and teach writing at the university level while continuing to write and publish her own poetry and prose.