Base Two Interview

I wrote this in reaction to showing up several times for job interviews and being told to take a computer personality assessment to determine if a second interview will take place

Alone, no other person in the room

Across the desk sits the lifeless monitor

The assayer of my personality, faceless and flat

Artificially reacts only to a charge, 

Sent from manmade pluses,

The key strokes my hand enters

Entries that change the shapes and images

Into a hundred questions

The answers to which are absolute

Allowing no subtlety, nuance, inflection or emotion

Reduced to black on white

A dot in the radio button

Sends the current to make a particular combination

On and off, off and on

Go and no go, ten thousand times

One one zero, zero zero one, one zero one zero one

My reason, self and identity

Reduced to a base two system

Like some futuristic melodrama from the past

Now come to life

Machine, judges the man.