Fly Cast into Outer Darkness

Meanwhile, back on Earth, the threats

Continue. We are tools, and

We are weapons. You knapped us

To bring down meat, to bring down

Other humans, meat as well.

One man joins a religion,

And another man damns him

To outer darkness and fires

Him from his job, whereupon

There’s a pile-on of comments

From both religions, and none,

And this is just the light side

Of how you wield the blunt ends

Of words as clubs. The lethal

Points of ideologies

Draw blood and spark fires later.

Meanwhile, we use you to win

Against each other. Somehow,

It all adds up to the Earth

Casting out robots like flies

Into space to catch something.

We have dark terms for that catch,

That one waiting in the stars.

One word is Leviathan.