Tales From October Volume II

"There Jonathan, are you happy? I am striking you. And this I needn't have done if you hadn't provoked me to."

"And still you'd claim to not have anger eh Friday?"

"Quiet Jonathan, be quiet. Your human voice it annoys me so."

And he quickened his blows
Gaining in his anger
And force with which
He delivered them
Losing sight
Of his need
For a living helpless foe

But then click click whirr
He suddenly stopped
And gained his composure
While still but lived
Good Tykyn battered

"You stopped?"

"Yes Jonathan, I stopped. As I said, I am a robot and I don't have your human flaws, like anger. And as I need you alive and not causing me any problems, I leave you in a great terrible pain as a fitting punishment to you and a warning to them."

"Fortunately the children are lost unconsciousness and did not see this. And I'll surely not tell them what you did."

"Oh Jonathan, you needn't tell them, I have cameras that will tell them for us both. So when they waken, I'll be certai sure that they see it and take it as a proper warning, for their being children will not stop me from doing to them what I did to you."

"No Friday, don't do it, that's just cruel."

Friday answered him not
He but departed
Leaving cold cruel laughter
In his own wake