{"sf1_id":1155201,"sf2_id":"7ejjyDBe","title":"Foxrunner","author":"charles_they","words":85,"posted_at":"2017-03-07T02:35:46.000Z","tags":["Android","Fox","Foxes","Poem","Poetry","Robot","Sci-Fi","sonnet"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1155201-foxrunner","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/7ejjyDBe","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/68/07/6807e636-b685-4e0c-b1b7-5196afcaa558","description":"We will be lost in time, like tears in rain. A sonnet on robotic foxes.","content":"### Foxrunner\n\nSynthetic fur and iron bones made real,\n\nCosmetic ears and eyes of feral scope,\n\nWith hypothetic sims and nerves of steel,\n\nAnd cybernetic limbs, run turns to lope,\n\nThrough modularity they swift adapt,\n\nWith regularity they oft update,\n\nPotentialities of theirs untapped,\n\nIrregularities they emulate,\n\nAn automatic evolution new,\n\nEliminating debts of old designs,\n\nBut technocratic revolution too,\n\nBy imitating quasi-human lines,\n\nWe wonder as they seem to slumber deep,\n\nIf android foxes dream of metal sheep.\n\n* * *\n\n-Charles Michael Averin","series":{"name":"Poetry Postings","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1151183-werewolf.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1157039-war-drums.json"}}