poem
Volume 36, Number 3

On All The Time

This will be the end of us—

Keeping up
                with the unkeepupable

Enter AI agents
                who never sleep

24-hour surveillance
24-hour news cycle
24-hour market
                disruption

We know it's coming

3?     5?     10 years?

The technocrats battle
to the finish line

stakeholders over country
country over citizen

Who will first
lose control?

We forfeit the keys
to our destiny

Greedy pioneers
wielding a flag
& broken compass


—Mark Danowsky