I Know a Bot
After Creeley

As I sd to my
follower, because I am
always doom scrolling,—Jake, I

sd, which was not his
avatar, the fascists sur-
rounds us, what

can we do against
them, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big drone,

fly it, he sd, for
trump’s sake, look out yr
headed to mar-a-lago.

 

John Roche lives in Placitas, NM, helping run Jules’ Poetry Playhouse and edit Poetry Playhouse Publications. Along with editing the five-volume Poets Speak series, his poetry books include On Conesus, Topicalities, Road Ghosts, The Joe Poems, Joe Rides Again: Further Adventures of Joe the Poet, and the latest, Tubbables.