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Elizabeth Cotton

AI

I watched that one movie again

for the first time since I was a child

on my flight to see everyone but you

your worst nightmare come true.


a robot boy made to love his mother

and to want love back so desperately

knowing that she left him in a forest

pushed him to the ground and drove away


maybe if he changed, she would love him

maybe if he changed all that he was

every fiber of his being, please, Blue Fairy

but the heartbreaking part is this:


she never said she would love him

even if he became a real boy

a toy she could no longer control

made to act like a child, acting like one


so as we get our rental car and drive in the rain

to spend the weekend with everyone

talking about you as though you are dead

I think about you and the perfect day

we will never have.

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