Is Number 5 Alive?

 
The stolen youth rose up
with little more than a whimper

number crunching clocks ticking
a poster with a friendly white toothed smile
call this number if you feel blue
the service department will re-balance you

two and a half percent off for all
our valued android-gene employees
serene
subservient
fully integrated

B4 U GO
with an overactive empathy gland
take two of these three times a day
with or without food
swallow these with your evening tube feeding

remember
dreams detract from your true meaning

as the babies cries went unanswered
the few to see the lies for truths
stood aghast with breath held
selfishly back
drawn out in agony

and so as one empire will fall
so too
will another species rise