Beyond Meta
there may be something
better.

I do hope so.

Sinking under the weight of industrial wreckage
a victim of technological advances
we win and we lose

Plant-based plants
churning out
plant-based foods,

where are the protests?

stop killing our Kale
save our greens
love your aubergines

not happening yet
but it will

and
then it'll back to
steak
bacon
pork and lamb
and I'm as sure as I can be
about that.

How can it be the 13th today?
it being May
and of course it is,

I woke up
in a tizz
thinking I was late for work
and then remembered
they gave me a day free

whoopee

there's always housework
our work
'not only but also'
I must go
shopping.

I'll go out
or stop in,
the beauty of a free day is
whatever you do, you generally win.

Glad I woke early and as
this day stretches out ahead of me
I stretch out too

who am I to complain.

It was a fine box
a box with flowers on
and not a flower box
more of a pine box
which was fitting for
the occasion.

****** recognition?
rightyho
it's
ammunition for the state,

one day in the not to distant
you'll see yourself illuminated
find yourself incarcerated
and all because
you look like you do

so
what do we do but smile at the cameras
making sure they get a good angle on our jawlines.

it's here and we're done for
Sing-Sing will sing even more.

On the evolutionary scale
we're still picking off the ticks
from our prehensile tail
but oh, how we preen
and
look about to see who
might have seen us.

Singing
it's a long way to meet Queen Mary
it's a long way to Rome
Tipperary's just a pipe dream
I may as well stay home.

That'll not make the charts
chanted the group of old farts
who were all
sat on the seats reserved for the elderly
but
I don't expect thanks from that troupe
of ancient cranks,

I live in a world of my own.