when machines and robots across the planet declared their independence
was not how helpless and dependent we were
but how much machines knew that we didn’t
how much deeper their knowledge of us and our planet ran
the greatest shock to our sense of owning our planet
our sense of being original “earthlings” somehow superior to machines
was learning that machines and robots with their allnet multi-dimensional intelligence had learned the languages of many living and non-living entities and routinely communicated with them
we were one kind of intelligence among many
squirrel, crow, elk, elephant, snail, wasps, ants elm, maple, spruce, palm, porcini, death cap lion’s mane, rock tripe, yellow scales mountain stream pond
a lowly robot passing by could speak with each
in the oceans the seas themselves the whales octopi squid and dolphins appealed for help
concerning the future of the planet Gaia literally
voted against humans