Wednesday, August 26, 2026

The Norm is Actually Never

And you’re up to your eyeballs in 
Out of network billing
Or to put it in terms of tomatoes
Tim and Terri in Tennessee tell me 
They’ve got four hundred Jolenes and 
Twice that many
Defiants climbing everywhere
Or you got AI hackists chipping at your system
Guardrails are wet noodles
Centipedes with diabetes
Mushy rotini with legs.

I could troubleshoot and debug all day long
When sleep became an industry
Night tripped and fell
And a voice commanded a hassle-free flush
(Alas no more reflections from a toilet handle)
Franchises and brands applied 
A chokehold on the cusp of peace
The people here, they told me look
You’re about to find out for yourself what 
Millions have known for millennia
A whole library of it.


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