Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Let’s Get Elemental! (posed by sarahsouthwest)
“For Christmas this year, my son received a copy of Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersley-Williams. It’s a book of stories about the different elements of the periodic table. I thought it might be fun to write some poems inspired by elements, and that’s what I want you to do tonight. You don’t need to have any knowledge of science to do this – we rub up against the elements every day.”
We are being reconstructed
with the use of titanium.
Any element that will
not corrode in water,
will hopefully be
of a strength to replace
a hip, knee, hand. In years
to come all people will have
titanium parts that can never
be destroyed–a bionic race.
Just another race to lodge
prejudice against.
purplepeninportland 
Ah, and won’t the archeologists have a field day with their trowels.
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Rough digging!
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this gave me goosebumps!
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Consider sci-fy, and you’ll feel better.
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A cyborg future! Yes, the archaeology will be interesting…but I love the idea that we are gradually transforming ourselves into something other.
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And what will the result look like.
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The best part of titanium is its compatibility to bone…
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True.
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Gold in our teeth, titanium in our joints! We are all truly becoming elemental.
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Forgot about the gold in our teeth!
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I believe and we will be super-human in the coming years. If this helps others, than I am all for it.
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Absolutely!
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Anime and sci fi have their fair share of plots involving prejudice against manufactured artificial intelligence. Cloud Atlas has a good segment on it. There must be a human gene that mandates an “us” vs. “them.”
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Never thought of it that way, but you are correct!
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LOL, I wonder what the bigotry will be against titanium folks, or again the few non-titanium non-bionics. Us vs Them keeps us safe, AND kills us. Sad
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Thanks, Sabio. It is sad.
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