Let's workshop this poem about how, just as humans have over the decades become more like AI, our notion of family might be shifting away from the maxim "Blood is thicker than water"
Someone You Just Love To Burn
The corporation describes itself
as “your family,” opening
the onboarding Zoom
with “Family Affair”
by Sly and the Family Stone—
and yet it is quick to fire you
for just one failed urine test
or for “insufficient commitment
against whiteness.”
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)