Book of Poems #3
Persona non grata
Leave!
You're not welcome here.
Leave!
You wanted to have it your way.
You did it your way.
Now you're on your way.
Leave!
Making humans obsolete
I'm not impressed
With your flying drones
And your driverless cars.
I'm not impressed
With your robot doctor
Replacing the good doctor,
Your robot lawyer
Replacing my lawyer down the street.
I'm not impressed
with your voice-activated
Multi-tasking Personal assistant.
When automation and robotization
take over completely the everyday life
We know what is happening:
Making humans obsolete
And forcing them to live
On universal income
In lockdown cities.
Birdwatcher
I think of you
And I think of a bird
Sometimes wild
sometimes crazy
Sometimes flying gracefully
Throughout the blue sky
Of my heart.
My stratosphere
Just beat time
Over my sunshine Florida
It just happens
Like a light bulb
That suddenly came on
I set you free
As much as I adore you
Throughout the blue sky
Of my heart.
The prostitute and the wise man
A wise man embarked on a journey
To turn a beautiful and young prostitute
In New York City as a housewife.
As noble as this sounds,
This was a daunting and perfidious enterprise.
Being irresistibly enamored with her,
He cherished that thought
To the point of obsession.
He shared his secret desire with her
She proved to him
There's no secret
There's no desire
No one can deny and go against
How she defines and perceives herself:
A free bird, a freelancer, a free spirit,
A thrill-seeker, a pleasure-seeker,
An adventure-seeker, a risk-seeker...
Believing by giving her more than she earned,
More than she could ever imagine,
He can lure her from the street
Offered her a house and later made her a wife,
She flat out refused his tempting money.
She believed with raunchy dating sites,
Direct messages, sexting, and her cell phone.
She has all she needs to ride it out
Until she meets a billionaire in the city.
She will marry him, then divorce him
And grab half of his fortune.
Who is the fool in this story?
This was a love affair gone wrong.