May 2004

The Stupid Future

 

The future I grew up with always wore hats, gloves and

uniforms, snapped to attention whenever you approached.

 

The future was well nourished and fit,

ready to go for an E.V.A. or a moonwalk.

 

Future people knew their hi-tech equipment

and could speak every engineering code.

 

So, I took all my vitamins for the future, fed and prepared

my brain for the onslaught of intellectuals to come, but

I never thought the future would be stupid, or be so

interested in personal rudeness and Gothic beliefs.

 

Belief is not the proper criteria

for making judgments that affect life.

Belief only governs the reactions of a torch mob.

 

So, even if I write a stupid poem for stupid people

they think they’re much smarter than me, because

I can never be familiar with every subtle shade of

 

STUPIDITY,  I’m just not prepared.

Copyright Jimmy Warner, 2004