"I don't know if
this singularity thing
is gonna work"
I said earlier
to a coworker
comparing myself
to a rickety old machine
in need of duct tape
or maybe
a wad of chewing gum
& later a customer
calling his generation
the greatest
also called
another one
garbage
like duct tape
or maybe
a wad of chewing gum

He was thinking of Z
the kids who have become
singular
w/ their phones
& not X

The rickety
old machines
that got them there
w/ little more
than duct tape
or maybe
a wad of
chewing gum

Though I've accepted
that there is no
intimacy
in pretense

The chipping away
doesn't hurt
too much
as long as
you have
duct tape
or maybe a wad
of chewing gum

(& I won't tell
if it does.)