TAI CHI

TAI CHI

I saw you in those
Facebook AI generated
Tai Chi adverts
desperate

to shed that belly
and the sixty pounds extra
some Tai Chi exercises
promising
    if not the elixir of youth
at least some
potent Eastern
magic spell
      to drive that faltering
wife back into
your arms
     all-a-greedy, and
from other women, at last,
many a covert smile

but body aside
it’s the brain, your brain,
turned futile, gone
AWOL, that
we most
     need to fix, with
poetry
   I do think, poetry
best for this

sonnet before bedtime
and when
        it comes to world
of smarts, a miracle soon
in sight

reversing the
                 ratio, restoring
the balance
between
     supply and demand

(zero
      supply, infinite demand)