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# The Cicada
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-cicada/
- Published: 2021-07-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: the chirping cicadas remind her of that awful day seventeen years go we can rebuild you, they told her better than new, stronger
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

the chirping cicadas remind her  
of that awful day seventeen years go  
we can rebuild you, they told her  
better than new, stronger

years later, it’s a natural extension  
of her body, obeying without pause  
whether she’s playing the piano,  
or slicing an enemy just as she was sliced

cyborg, they call her now  
and she sees more and more  
of her kind, those that are  
accident victims, or like her, killers

it’s truly a marvel of modern engineering  
this hand that feels and touches  
even better than the real thing.

It can even feel his ever so slight,  
suppressed revulsion,  
when she touches him softly

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**Author notes:** wc 106 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784674-Artwork-Inspired-Prompt