Clothes Horses
We are content providers
& fools for giving all of it –
lines as well – pro bono in
our need to be agreeable
& agreed with – a likeable
savant posting his poems
of damn fine rhyme [also
doggerel] – We spin it out
as if it matters – We shout
& it bounces back – echos
of others’ aches return [&
by them algorithms learn
about our souls] – See our
bare arses [now parading
as a king in new clothing]
& all online nudity is grim
[best to bear disconnects
& not my butt-naked feed]