Sunday, 29 November 2020

Junk Mail

thank god for junk mail

otherwise all we'd get

is mail from people we know

telling us things that matter

or the latest news on their lives


when all we really want

is fake news about Gillette razors

or an offer of £1 million

from a Nigerian prince

if only we'd share our bank details


God invented junk mail

so that when AI

takes all of our jobs

including the writing of poems

about junk mail

and AI taking all of our jobs


there will still be something meaningless to do


anything will do

so long as we don't have to

sit still and just be,

dwelling on who we are

and for what reason

now that we are no longer

in the workplace culture

that has defined our existence

for the past two hundred years

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