PETS

PETS

bad leg
two
bad
legs

thin
as stilts
once so strong

everything about me
progressive

incremental
transformative

alchemical
   would strut the boards
if could walk at all

need to
pray to AI

to halt this in its tracks
reverse the process
save
   my lineage

turn, as the advert says if
I do remember it rightly,
magnificent
    artistic portraits
into
loveable pets

nothing would ever
be so fanciful as awakening
the inclination
     to pet me
ever

so sorrowful my state
having exceeded my allotment
hit my deadline called
time
    on all of that

what thin
as a
    stalk now
down to a toothpick