BEARING A CLOSE RESEMBLANCE

He has a name, the one they gave him long ago
He answers when it is called, usually
He appears familiar on the surface
He walks upright and has opposable thumbs
But something about him doesn't feel right
He doesn't feel human
He doesn't feel much of anything
He's stuffed himself so full of drugs
that he feels detatched
enough to write third person prose
It's just another learned behavior
He's been mimicing humans lately
just the way he was programmed
He doesn't understand and can't explain
It is unconscious
Ingrained
He is the program
His position is in the mission
convert or kill
convert or kill
The choices are very clear:
convert or kill
But it is not his choice
He is acting on impulse
Impulses from sources unkown

- Scott Tuomala, 1997