High Tech, High Touch
A quadrilateral amputee wearing shorts,
flashing his titanium arms and titanium legs,
flirts with the barista at the Baltimore airport.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Thanks to surgeries and algorithms,
the rock climber dallies at the counter,
propelled by an exoskeleton, a dude,
a cyborg with a brilliant pick-up line.
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in’t!