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sorry reader, nothing for
you today
     I’m om strike with
the other poets
over fair treatment

do you not see the barrier
here in the middle of the text
where it
         says “picket line”
and begs
you not to cross it?

not just pens
and paper and AI assisted
wordprocessing programs

we have
to seize
the means of production

without
      full autonomy over
the forces of creation

where would we be
where
      would we be?

not between
here and the deep
             blue sea but

right
at the bottom of it
just like drowned Percy
Bysshe Shelley
     pretty much a saint
in this trade

so
deadly serious (that
you convinced yourself was
all about
    markings and meanings
whiff
    of ink
     on a page)