Mechanical Monument

They weaponized a patriot that was meant to be a monument
It had a voice box and a record you could change
This way it told of history or the latest revision of it
With sunken painted eyes that were waxy, cold, and strange

Its gears were made more durable with armored covers on them
They gave it a machine gun, the kind you feed with chains
No more stories, it shouts orders, or to clear out of the way
It moves quickly and quite smartly for its simple wind up brain

It all works rather well for a thing meant for only a display
It can keep on running without both arms, without a head
On fire or under water, without food or rest for days
It was never made alive and so you cannot make it dead