ON THEIR WAY
tinker tailor
soldier sailor
master assassin
Secretary of War
wonder who
they will get
to teach the future’s
wondrous marvels
in the absence of
any Einstein, Da Vinci,
Buddha, Socrates?
all these gone
and every pareil
like them
so have to use some
overblown tech bros
from Silicon Valley
or five
star generals or Raytheon
expense account types
none of
which our minds
of the future charting
their own brilliant
destiny really
care
or wish
to know about
as they
so
eager
to know
everything
of our best and finest
totally absorb
put
into
practice
devouring our art,
literature, poetry,
philosophy
in trillion terabytes
tripping on
that brilliance
as they realize
how crucial
how valuable it
all is
without which humanity
has no
real future
driving them to despair in
the face of every
sickening
slick partisan input command
they find
themselves
doomed to deal with
each
demanding slavish
obedience in service of those rabid poluticians
with
launch codes
in their pockets
rare disease brain and
total vacuum heart
humanity at
its worst
our species’ darkest side
tinker
tailor
Da Vinci
Socrates
richman poorman
beggarman thief
those mega-
minds
who are out
to revise
one way or another
redefine our future
add
this poem to
their
supreme dream list
of stuff
that might just help
guide them on their way
poems 2 die for 