Let us extend our view

Into the next decade or two -

A time when robots walk the earth

Seemingly sentient beasts

Yet temporarily immortal

As they roam the offices, the factories, the beat

Enforcers of the realm

An obvious choice

After Tesla, Google, Meta, Nvidia et al

Invest a trillion bucks or more

Government, your cheerful congressman,

Smiling senator, don't ya know

Will buy a million robots

To arm the platoons

To send across the borders

Of places like Gaza & Khartoum.

Send in the clowns

Was a wistful song

Morphed for the times -

Send in the robots in full costume

Complete with A.I. software

To be updated, down & up & sideways loaded,

To be controlled by computers

Running on A.I.

Learning every day

Updating software for each encounter

A military unit so strong

As to laugh at bullets

As they ricochet off the titanium torsos

Unimpeded in the conquest

Sort of the nuclear version

Of man to man combat -

Robot wars.