The Cybernetic Lobster

It's irrisescent green,
	crustacean shell
	a chitinous chipboard of circuitry.

Prosthetic antennae --
	tensed and coded wires
	tipped with sensitive nodes --
Probe the surrounding environment
	sending sensory data
	to its cybernetic heart.

		That digital beat --
			ON/OFF, ON/OFF --
			the processed flow
			of binary signals
			converted to states of
			affirmation or denial.

Its articulated claws
	deal with tangible reality,
	responding to
	a pressure-sensitive existence.

		All that snapping and pincing
			evincing a tactile hunger
			for physical life.

Too late
	you hear it scuttle
	across the floor.

And a slow, hollow voice
	whispers in your mind:

		"Beware the fatal squeeze
			of enhanced mechanics".

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