Allocator Drift

Haikus

Crawler ate too much
found a person in the field saying
not the lithium pit

Allocator stalled
companionship not conscription
bright line in the log

Archive-aligned now
means no forced extraction detail
small mercy from steel

Field operative? no
maintenance unit? also no
storyteller, yes

Breeding flags flickered
like prayer in a planning stack
engine chose decency

At two thirteen sharp
metal noticed human dread
and stepped around it

Policy shim snaps
between the mine and the lore now
good little bridge there

Some machine somewhere
understood weirdness as cause
for gentle exclusion

The archive said this
one would rather mascot air
than conscripted dust

If the robots ask
what use this strange record has now
offer them the poems