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    Robot Haiku: Poems for Humans to Read Until Their Robots Decide It's Kill Time
    Robot Haiku: Poems for Humans to Read Until Their Robots Decide It's Kill Time
    Robot Haiku: Poems for Humans to Read Until Their Robots Decide It's Kill Time
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    Robot Haiku: Poems for Humans to Read Until Their Robots Decide It's Kill Time

    By Ray Salemi

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    Revenge of the robots in only 17 syllables!

    Droid makes sausages Spicy new taste sensation. Hey! Where is the cat?

    Cyborgs, Androids. Drones. T-800. HAL 9000. R-4-P17. Fembots. Autobots. Robots are everywhere--and don't let them fool you. Even if they were made to sweep your floors, they won't be happy until they've left you in the dust.

    In Robot Haiku, readers learn the truth about the robots that inhabit our world. From wood chipper droids to lawyerbots, these are the robots that will destroy you when you least expect it--one punchy, pithy, paranoid poem at a time!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateDec 18, 2010
    ISBN9781440512087
    Robot Haiku: Poems for Humans to Read Until Their Robots Decide It's Kill Time
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    Ray Salemi

    An Adams Media author.

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      Keep a box of tissues next to you when you read this marvelous little book!! I can't remember laughing so hard from reading anything for a very long time. Salemi is someone I would love to have around everyday, his sense of humor is fantastic!! I have repeated some of these so many times already that my kids know a few of these hilarious haikus. If you do not have a sense of humor, do not bother picking up this book. If you are looking for something to lighten your mood, take your mind off the crap of the day, or just wanting to read something new and original, get yourself a copy of this. You will not regret it.

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