Diet Nanobots

by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa

Diet nanobots

Advertised as safe to use

For easy weight loss,

All designed and certified

By some leading scientists.

They’re simple to use,

Injected in the body,

Not unlike vaccines.

Just launched for a day,

They became an instant hit,

Trending everywhere.

People stood in lines,

Some waiting for days, for weeks,

For one costly shot.

They worked like a charm,

Multiplying as programmed

To consume the fat.

Weeks after the launch,

People showed off their new forms

Slender, curvy, lean.

Social media

Buzzed with posted images

Of countless changed lives.

The craze traveled fast,

Through towns, through cities, through states,

Then through continents.

But people forgot

The deadliest of monsters

Are the ones within.

Blinded by their joy,

Most refused to see how fast

Those nanobots spread.

Swifter than cancer,

They grew exponentially,

Sucking their hosts dry.

Indiscriminate,

They’d eat away everything,

Fat and muscle both.

Drastic was the change,

From smiles and tears and laughter

To gloomy silence.

Now, void are the streets,

Inactive are most accounts,

The world’s a graveyard.