Going to Be Someone

 My daughter, my dear, we need to talk

Your grades are appaling, 

your school has been calling

you have some serious work to do here.

I realize the world is on fire

I am no climate change denier

and though CNN has warned of an 

imminent economic collapse

But dont let that stop you from

doing your best. You're not like the rest.

You can be anything you want to be

Sort of like that new AI machinery

Have heard of how it can do

everything you're learning to do

except faster and better and always correct?

They say we can't keep it in check.

But my darling, don't fear. You'll go far

Dream big. Become someone in the world

Where soon there will be no one, or

at least no one youll be able to see

When the lights go out and the grid collapses

under the weight of our spaceage

cars and devices and those mega monoliths

of data storing , knowledge hoarding devices

Yes, the ones who hold the very things

you're supposed to be hard studying

So you can go out in the world and

....you know what...fuck it.