Wake up! The dawn is rapping at the shutters!
There is no time to lose, nor waste away;
you must begin to clear out all this clutter
that gives you an excuse to sleep all day.
Believe this: if the end is really coming,
you won’t hear marching feet or feel the drumming.
Defeat will slip in silent, like a thief.
Your struggle will be pointless and kept brief.
Remember that you asked for this convenience:
demanding automation of all things,
expecting everything be had for free.
Forgive the mindless drones; they know no lenience,
nor any song except the one they sing.
You know the words: we wrote them, you and me.
01 JUN 2017
Brilliant. Scary. A decidedly unfortuitous glimpse of the lacking in lenient future. We have done it. You have named it. God help us all.