Where will you be in 2035?

Still protesting your victimhood on college campuses

Or claiming an indignity based on your inability

to be kind.

While turning that around-

pushing, shoving, harrassing, shaming

intellectuals because you can’t think for yourself; you’re so blind.

Or will you march to the beat of the bullies in-charge?

Letting crops die, while farms erode and you lose your mind,

Did you ever have one or were you inclined

to believe anything?

A glittery screen and an incensed scream,

From a politician, a bamboozled liar

Who stole your high ground while you

whittled away the hours.

Blaming others of color of religion or race

As you stuffed your fat face

with cheetos and pork rinds

Slobberiing GMO poison to rattle your mind.

Or using AI to get an almighty high

By relinquishing creativity

To an algorithm gone insane.

From its makers

whose lives are nothing but hives of swarming controls

Made of money and power never relenting – they sold their souls!

As they scour the earth for data centers,

 with mirth,

Raping the land and killing the people

 populating he Hood,

using back door diplomacy, payoffs and greed

To the ones whose job is to protect those in need.

Oh, let’s weed out the weak and destroy what they keep

As keepsakes and memories of green grass and home

There’s no officials to represent them,

they’re alone.

So rise up dear people, the time is right now.

Like the 1960s only better, more power, more Wow!

Cause now we know how.

To care for our brothers and sisters

 One people one faith,

In ourselves and our talents,

Loving hearts- our saving grace.

As millions round the planet take back what they know

Mother Earth was always stronger

than any tech bro!

By Elise Krentzel

Elise Krentzel is an author, bestselling memoirist, narrative nonfiction writer, ghostwriter, and narrative IP architect whose work explores the intersection of place, identity, culture, history, and lived experience. She is the author of Rogue Entrepreneur: Building a Life the World Didn’t Have a Name For and Under My Skin: Drama, Trauma & Rock ’n’ Roll, a bestselling memoir. Her forthcoming Hydra: The Human Atlas launches a new body of work examining how place shapes who we are, what we remember, and how we transform. A former Tokyo Bureau Chief for Billboard Magazine, Krentzel spent more than two decades living and working internationally, including five years in Japan, and has reported on music, art, culture, food, travel, and the people and places that shape them. Today, she works selectively with authors, leaders, and other high-level professionals on books and narrative projects, bringing editorial rigor, lived global perspective, and a deep understanding of story architecture to work intended for serious publication and potential adaptation across film, television, and other media. She is also the founder of the Human Atlas Institute, an emerging cultural initiative built around conversation across difference and the exploration of geography, identity, culture, history, and beauty as forces that shape human experience. Krentzel's home base is in Austin, Texas, with one foot in France, and continues to write, travel, research, and develop new books and cultural projects. Find her at https://elisekrentzel.com, LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/elisekrentzel. Facebook www.facebook.com/OfficiallyElise Instagram www.instagram.com/elisekrentzel.