'Fast Forward I & II', by DM Rice
I
in the future there
will
be no such thing
as
preferred
pronouns,
only pronouns
in the future we
will
make things wrong
because the truth
is out there
the future will have
flying cars and
potable
water
the future will not
be syndicated
the future will be
yours
the future will be
theirs
the future will be
ours
a curling iron
wrapped
around the thread
of
possibility
the future will be
hostile
we will debt the
hearth
of our climate
the future is carbon
free
an algorithm
processing
creation
faster
than
the speed
of thought
the future will
break
gender
the future will quiet
life
the future will be
yours
the future will be
theirs
the future will be
ours
II
the future will be live
it will be a prime time
jive
in the future we will
cull the mass extinction
through automated intelligence
the future will be a dive
myriad voyers hanging
off the precipice of
misinformation
the future is royalty free
strikes will lead to dead
internment camps
where no
violence
needs uphold
the corporate strategems
the future is interchangeable
long live what passes for life
in the ecstatic horror
of genetic regulation
the future is cybernetic orgasm
by the time you read these words
we will already be there
by the time they come for me
no one left alive will stop
to stare
Artwork by Stephen R. Spencer II