Kindly Refer To Right-Sizing the Brain

Let's workshop this poem about a land of left-hemisphere hypertrophy

Kindly Refer To Right-Sizing the Brain 

Teary feels of Oh I must be dreaming wash
over me during encounters now almost
atavistic (given our progress to becoming 
more procedural, precise)—encounters
with office secretaries or administrators

or even just a growing number of regulars
walking about off-duty in the sun, people
who can chat off script, no HR dispassion;
who can grasp nonliteral meaning, humor;
who can comprehend a joke, and in a joke 

more than what seems worthy of reporting
to authorities for violating safe-space code;
who can compute concerns unanticipated 
in their manuals or “onboarding” trainings;
who can brainstorm workarounds with care,

that of putting themselves in foreign shoes;
who have how-to-appear-human programs
strong enough to stop them from answering
(well, at least outwardly) “Why with hands,
of course” when asked how they feel today;

who perhaps think That info is quite random
given that the topic of our discussion has been 
the various metrics of lifestyle optimization
instead of Let me turn down the heat for him
when told, “Wow, you keep it hot in here!”

This poem is unpublished

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