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While flesh-and-blood participants followed conventional rules, the 20 teams fielding machines in the Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon competed under tailored guidelines, which included battery swap pit stops.

"What a synthetic diamond the skull is!" --Vallejo

Gumby at the coke machine.

"Kammerspiel"

iron urban marble
interval muffed vintage
stand in the mirror
& hear bombers humming
stark before breakfast

white pill in a white cup
wharfside huddled mudlarks
finding but fathoms
in the new bright nettles
sparrows of fray shed

a march forward faunching
faster than fresh gas-lines
here where the hourglass
trickles into trench mouth
urban iron marble

"A land that is lonelier than ruin..."