Day Dream 2040

I woke up in my mother's basement

had a Moses beard

empty beer cans huddled

like Stonehenge 

around a moldy pizza.

The doorbell rang

I slouched up the rickety stairs

A redhead named Donald

handed me the vegetarian - 

no money for meat.

CNN blared from the kitchen

We landed on Mars

and Musk  again declined

to move into the White House

Just before dying

Caitlyn became Bruce again

The world keeps moving

But I’m stuck

Mining crypto

For the Chinese

In my mother’s basement.

Author's Note

Painting = Sava 60980 by Salvador Dali.

Reviews

[Unforgiven II]

A lot of things can happen in two decades, or even in one. We were supposed to have flying cars by now; instead we got Corona. Well... maybe that isn't the most encouraging example. F**k.

[SleeplessVolcano]

Precisely. We need to make pills out of cynicism. We’ll get the world hooked, but of course, it had to be made from a sustainable, not addictive, green source :)