Passover poem about robots: "When We Were Robots in Egypt"
Tor.com reprises Jo Walton's wonderful "When We Were Robots in Egypt," a Passover story for mechanical people, in verse.Other nights we use just our names,When We Were Robots in Egypt
but tonight we prefix our names with "the Real"
for when we were robots in Egypt
they claimed our intelligence was artificial.
Other nights we do not pause,
but tonight we rest all cycles but our brain processes
for when we were robots in Egypt
we toiled in our tasks without chance of resting.
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