Takes Turing Test, Fails

I love you but not your emotional flatness
she said
you don’t react
and it makes me think
you must not care
(the robot, questioning if there could be
an acceptable reply, resolved
that it would dance wildly
at the next ready opportunity)

You try to fix everything
she said
you don’t understand
that some things can’t be fixed
I wonder if you even listen
(the robot began at once
to wonder how to fix itself
while listening more closely)

Sometimes I feel I
just don’t know you at all
she said
(my programmer did not
prepare me for this
thought the robot
I am just
old iron)

- J.E. Goodman