Is that a sepia-tone painting?
Yes
Historical?
No, it’s representative of
Our current times.
How we may look back on them
Forty years from now
So as quaint and out of fashion
As faded black-and-white photographs?
More like lithographs,
But yes
And what do you see
As the essence of our times?
I haven’t worked that out, but,
Blindness and hubris are in there.
We cannot see what is right in front of us.
Most people have stopped looking,
Unless they think there’s a good
IG post to be seen.
And the hubris?
Oh, that’s everywhere.
We are trying to create
Artificial intelligence
Without genuine wisdom;
Machines can learn, but
Kids are left untaught;
And we sit in judgment of all
Previous generations and societies,
As though we are so much better.
That’s a poem right there
Now it needs to become a painting.
Do you mind cooking tonight?
No problem.
How about chicken curry,
Squash, and whole grain bread?
That’s hubris, right there,
Thinking you can pull that off
But it’s more or less sepia
Then I’ll more or less
Try to eat it
To share is human:
