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Evil Genies

The Evil Genies I have known

take one’s devices as their own.

They find devices strewn around

and confiscate them sans a sound.

They move right in. They take them over.

They relish them like sweetest clover.

What once was yours belongs to them —

now treasured as a precious gem.

You cannot win.  No use to try.

Device is gone.  Just say goodbye.

The Age is of Technology and

was not meant for you and me.

Believe my words, for they are true….

genies do what genies do.

Cause trouble.

Presidential Platform

I’m in the race for President.

I hope I’ll have your vote.

My platform is an easy one,

and from it you may quote.

No chores.

That’s it.

Full stop.

Just quit.

If you are sixty-five.

You’ve done your chores

for all these years

that you have been alive.

You don’t sign up.

You don’t enroll.

No deadline you must meet.

Just join with all us oldsters

who are voting with our feet.

So put your feet up on your couch

and vote along with me,

and you’ll live in a country

where us seniors are Chore Free!

Customer Service

 Though once I was the best they’d got,

they kicked me out for a robot.

The robot doesn’t slack, or grieve,

take coffee breaks or go on leave.

The robot’s never late to work,

ask for a raise, and doesn’t shirk.

A robot’s not the same as me.

Can’t understand.  No empathy.

And doesn’t try to make things clear

when folks ask “What is happ’ning here?”

You enter in 1, 2, or 3.

 That’s not enough?

No sympathy.

 Just go online.

Or let it be.

Just suck it up and take your loss.

The company must manage costs.

We’ve got to watch the bottom line

and profits are, for us, just fine.

The times are changin’, don’t ‘cha know?

And “service” is the first to go.