It’s a text a neighbour sent to me at home

A robot voice came out my landline phone
A computer was the first to speak today
Via a text a neighbour sent to me at home

This voice is affectless and cannot groan
Makes inhuman noises quite unlike a prayer
This robot voice came out my landline phone

It sounds like a someone with  a heart of stone
Yt gives a message uninspired and spare
Via a text a neighbour sent to me at home

At least it did not linger on or moan
Wittgenstein  might like the saying bare
Of a robot voice  from out a  landline phone

There is no accent, variation, tone
Essential in its lonely  act of care
This  text a neighbour sent to me at home

The wolf may howl, the fox sleep in his lair
The cat mioaw, the dog bark  on the stair
A  flat cold voice   was on my landline phone
It’s a text a neighbour sent to me at home