Hire a comfort bot
to occupy their needs
so you can slip away
to other tasks,
other adventures,
and begin to forget
the ones who still need you,
who still wait
for a moment of contentment
that re-centers their world.
Fiction and poetry writing, recapturing the muse.
Hire a comfort bot
to occupy their needs
so you can slip away
to other tasks,
other adventures,
and begin to forget
the ones who still need you,
who still wait
for a moment of contentment
that re-centers their world.
Calculate to work out
a living,
understand consequences
of indulgence
and dream of future luxuries.
Scrabble for extra work
you’re too exhausted for,
but ignore aches
and keep imagining
a brief time
you can leave it all behind
if you just keep going.
Enter the space
but continue your life,
not noticing those already there,
waiting to be acknowledged
and panicking they are invisible.
Only when they give up
do you turn to greet them.
The smallest is the heaviest,
forcing its way through
to the bottom
and exposing larger problems
to the surface,
bouncing them up
until they overflow
and end your
successful streak.
Chop, chisel, simmer,
reduce to produce
and create something new
to make your day
worth it.
Update my week,
control my movements
so I can plot the in-between.
Leaving me in limbo
is stripping any last
free-will away.
Perhaps that’s the plan,
to make us less than human
one more.
Command technology
to produce sound
while you stare
at a tree’s carcass
and try to imagine
melting one form into another,
then molding it to a more
pleasing sight.
How does it feel,
what movements are needed,
and how can you convey this
to someone even more clueless
than you.
How do you make them believe.
Five hundred in a row
to weave words
into meaning,
try to inspire
try to exhume feelings
for better health
and peace of mind.
Days in succession,
each goal achieved,
continue the trend
and count the growing
chances to understand.
Prepare to be watched
and judged
for a role you’ve been
fulfilling for years
but is finally being
acknowledged.
Discover the joys of
the beginning,
relearning,
and feeling the thrill
you’ll be able to
list your skills
and pronounce your
profession in the
present tense.
Veiled through a fog
that restricts actions
but not demand,
impatient ghosts
scream into an aching head
watching at the collapse
and scolding all as useless.