Mike "Pops" Klumpp

it is infantile
   to sit and imagine sweet candy lands and utopian communities

history reveals the grind of the human machine
there is no sugar and lavender pressed from these roots
blood and bitters
so-
we have the numbing of AI
the drumming of silence in the waves of the internet
our make-believe village
where we say what we want and our hearts and hatred spews 
in infantile rage

it is infantile

put away childish things

            i am the butterfly and the butterfly is me.