In the Next Life, Canto II, stanzas 1-4

IN THE NEXT LIFE
CANTO II: THE FALL
In which the robot carriers learn to direct themselves in ways that increase their chances of survival and reproduction.

I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.
—Charles R. Darwin, The Origin of Species, Chapter 3.

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Awake.
To go.
To make.
To know.

To hear.
To see.
To fear.
To flee.

To follow those.
They know the way.
The way it goes.
Do what they say.

From them to learn
what things to do,
which way to turn.
All things are new.

©2010 Louis A. Merrimac

5: This is the number of the narrating carrier.