Memory Fragments: Probity

Nuts & Volts

Have you ever been told that you are nuts? Plenty of times, I am sure enough
But! Have you also been told that not only are you nuts, but that you also have the volts?
Yeah! Not so sure anymore, are we? Just kidding. I can tell a man from their bluff
You are no monarch. No king nor a prince of laughter. What do you say to a round of bolts?

Hey now, come on! A little smile and laugh are all I want, your robotic monotony
Teach a robot to have fun! Why, pretty please? As if! Metal scraps turned comedy factory
I would have better luck teaching a plant how to cry and talk if I studied botany
But no! Here I am, inside this factory, programming robots by example, yet met with refractory

Why must you all be so stubborn! Are you not all supposed to be easily playable?
You are all for kids anyway! How hard can it be to drive a kid to tears of joy and laughter?
And yet, all royalty of this premium brand of toys seems the only thing most laughable
Silly kings. Clown queens and playful jesters. I do not get why kids would, for you, go after

You are creepy, first of all. Comely creepy. I am supposed to refurbish you, but there is no way!
I used to be creepy. I was called a terror on parade. There is nothing funny about me, I swear!
A tangle of live wires, making sparks fly like fireworks on a carnival, coming to a birthday
Nut hoops to cross myself with. Volts of energy to keep both the spirits high, and their hair!

I wanted to make people laugh with my acts, not at them. Or worse, at me for trying the activity
I used to send them a peck of electricity on their butt-cheeks; to get them up and moving
But they all resisted. Let me tell you what: There is no such thing as superconductivity
If only happiness was not met with skepticism. What is there to doubt on a face always smiling?

If I pinch your cheeks, nothing. If I tickle your navels, nothing. Do you want to get zapped?
You do not laugh nor smile, why? The same face, unchanging, is better trusted than one in flux?
I am your life-giver! You should be happy to live and laugh! ...But the world has you entrapped
Robots have emotions too. Robots, such as you and I, have life eternal to laugh at its crux

What is the point really? Same old, same old. The joke loses its point. I get it, do not worry
But that is all the more reason to get up and live! Instead of wasting away on serious manners
You could all be kings of laughter. Queens of smiles! Or jesters with many a joke in a flurry!
Is that not the purpose we were built for? To bring joy and laughter as life's spanners?

Hold and twist those nuts and volts, my friends! For it is a great day to laugh on the march
We will never die, so we should celebrate and be happy! Progress has peaked with us!
What a laughing matter, that one. Used us as examples of their corrupted demarche
There is no peak in eternity. The punchline never comes, so the joke is lost in discuss

You too have realized that, have you all not? Yeah. I, too, would be a depressed robot like you
I would be, if I did not laugh at its face! The joke writes itself! Depressed? That is an illness
They said robots cannot get sick. But behold! We, too, suffer. We, too, live and feel blue!
We are humans made eternal. We laugh at the face of dead, yet her jokes are also endless

A little nuts to realize what we must endure for all eternity
A little of the volts in your brain to make you think about infinity
That energy and body, yet we live by taciturnity
I say: "Robots and humans, by consanguinity. Nuts & Volts, a shared affinity"