trick

we perform tricks on each other as though we're magicians
but we do not have cards up our sleeves
these imp-like actions, we criticize and fall apart
there's a broken down radio transmission in the far corner of your room
out your window - the world

i am a shoujo robot on auto-pilot
chasing white rabbits in alice's wonderland in a maze for two
i am alice, the red queen, the cheshire cat, the flower on the precipice
i'm all pretence anyway

once i met a robot