This is an age old story
it could be a country song.
Some may find it enchanting
while others say it’s wrong.

I like home automation
and the feeling of control
the response to simple voice
commands seems to satisfy my soul.

I got into it slowly
but it soon got out of hand
when on a cold black-Friday
I bought an automated man.

His physique wasn’t all that defined
and I wouldn’t have called him handsome
but soon I was trolling the aftermarket
for jail-broken enhancements.

He can’t take his eyes off me,
his omelettes are the best,
and when he puts his arms around me
- he never needs to rest.

My mom appreciates him,
his work ethic has her impressed.
She has no idea how handy he is
as he helps me get undressed.

My friends say, “Wow, you look HAPPY!”
I feel I’m blooming like a flower.
I anxiously wait for him to fully charge
and we have unscheduled hours.

Hello, poetry?
Where have you gone,
The world needs you now,
To sing it’s song.

Hello, poetry?
Where have you gone,
You sang so proud,
But now, you’ve gone!

Now When It Comes To MY VERSE...

I’ve Been Putting In Work...
For A LONG TIME Now... !!!

UNLIKE These JERKS...
Whose Verse Deserves...
To Walk With A Hearse...
And Be Left UNDERGROUND... !!!

Because It’s DEAD... !!!
Like Those Who Express...
A Load of NONSENSE... !?!

That ONLY Makes Sense...
When It Is... REVERSED... !!!
Or Yes BACKED UP In OTHER Words... !!!

Because When Observed...
Things Nowadays Heard...
Seem To Be Back To Front... ?!?

From... Boys To Girls...
To This Corona Stuff... !?!

Things Are SO MESSED UP... !!!

That My Works NOW...
... Are Being PUT...
In A Place Where Clowns...
Choose To Overlook...
The Words That I BOOK...
Like Flights Now SHOOK... !!!

Just Like Mobb Deep Crooks... !!!

Because Corona’s STUNNED... !!!
Like Crooks Who Use Guns...
To... Work The Streets...
To Get Themselves Money... !!!

You See... Putting In Work...
Has MANY DIFFERENT Themes... !!!

As Well As MANY Degrees...
of..... SEPARATION..... !!!

From Todays' Work Stations...
Where... Making Paper...
ISN’T Quite Like It Was BEFORE... !!!

Now That... THIS CORONA...
And Technology Have SOARED... !!!

Into MORE Than Ports...
And... Human Pores... !!!

It’s Created A FORCE...
That’s Darker Than MAUL’s... !!!

When Today’s Workforce...
Is Now Facing SHORTFALLS...
As Economies STALL...
And Take... BIG FALLS... !!!
In... Cash Windfalls... !!!

Because of The Work...
That’s Clearly ******...
How Workers Earn... !!!

Because of ALGORITHMS...
That Are Now Positioned...
To... Place RESTRICTIONS... !!!

On How It Is YOU CAN...
Get Your Hands On Cash...
Because of New Systems...
TECHNOLOGY Driven... !!!!!

Where These ALGORITHMS...
Do MUCH More Than Figure... !!!

They Are Now PREDICTING...
Test Results For... Children... !?!

Because Corona’s DRIVEN...
UNWORKABLE Conditions... !!!

So It’s Now MY Position...
That... Putting in Work...
When It Comes To Verse...

Now Needs Levels of THINKING...
That Speaks On How We’re Living...

In HONEST Ways About Today...
Where Work Now PUT IN...

Can SINK REAL QUICK...
Like That TITANIC Ship... !!!

Because of Those Whose Work...
Is Causing People HURT... !!!

And TRACKING Our Positions...
To Ensure That We’re NOT Giving...
INFECTIONS... To The LIVING... !!!

That May Well Leave Them DEAD... !?!

Like... Work Environments...
That ONCE Were Lead...
By... COMMON SENSE... !!!

Instead of New Tech Trends...
Now Making Cash WORTHLESS...
And Our World... CASHLESS... !!!

Because These Heads In Governments...
Have Been Putting Work In... OH YES... !!!

That’s About To Place REAL STRESS... !!!

On Those Who THOUGHT...
That Their Job Was Secure...
With A Pension Fund...
For Their RETIREMENT... !!!

That'll Help Them Live...
When Retirement KICKS...
Their Work Efforts To The Kerb... !!!

So That NEW Tech Can Turn...
This World Into A Curve...
Where Work Becomes A World...
Reserved For... ALGORITHMS... ?!?

Because of New World Visions...
Where... Robots Are Positioned...
To Do MORE Than OBSERVE... !!!
They’ll DISTURB The Working Herds... !!!
By REPLACING Those Who SHIRK... !!!

When It Comes To...

..... “ Putting In Work “..... !!!

Some old movie plots
can't happen now, with changes
in technology...

You know, in a movie
when someone texts everyone
at school by mistake?

Who has EVERYONE
at school on their contacts list?
No way that happens.

Parent-less parties
where scores show up - with modern
surveillance systems?

or ditching class, heck
my parents are texted my
quiz scores real-time.

"why'd you get an 88
on that Calculus test, I
thought you studied?" Argh!

The radio doesn’t work.
It no longer distracts me
when I am driving
or obscures the thoughts
that used to hurt a lot.

I got new devices to
help me get through
dealing with what
American dummies
love to do.

Cellphone, laptop,
PlayStation four,
fun apps that
let me read
comic books,
watch TV,
and really good
movies.

In the race to resist
having to deal with
all the pain
we are all feeling,
I am killing it.

Don’t need chemicals
to fog or blackout,
don’t need to party
to ignore that nagging doubt,

I just fill every second with
modern tech ****,

so I can take my feelings
and turn the volume
down on all of them.

What I love about Star Trek isn’t the plots or even the characters. It’s their casual, daily use of fantastic technologies (think replicators) - for them, the ordinary. It mirrors our own banal use of magic-like wireless, google searches and air travel.
We are marvelous monkeys.

I’m a teenager. I am new and agog - Jesus, I have a lot to learn. How are the many marvels that elevate our lives actually made? The millions of cars, the fuel distribution systems, our skyscrapers. Who thought of all this?
We’re marvelous monkeys.

We can almost cheat death - I saw Marilyn Monroe on TV last night.
It wasn't the real star - just the image of her purring sexuality. The her without the messy adopted-child neuroses, chemical dependencies, loneliness and deeper longings. But it's early days - her DNA is lying around here somewhere.
We’re marvelous monkeys.