Artificiality
Benjamin Niespodziany | Poetry
The marketing meeting
recommends we consult
with the robots and the robots
recommend we take action
when it comes to strategy
and the strategy recommends
we rollout and the rollout
recommends we pump the brakes
and lean in to the activation
campaign and the activation
campaign recommends we
consult with the robots and the
robots recommend we check
with our bosses before making
any drastic decisions and our
bosses ask their bosses to see
about this drastic decisions
but our boss’ bosses are out
for the month in Cabo or on
a walk around a lake we can’t
pronounce or at the mouth
of a cave known for its exquisite
price of entry or somehow
in an abandoned shopping mall
with six interns filming
an avant-garde video they hope
will go viral as recommended
by the robots we all call God.
Benjamin Niespodziany is a writer whose work has appeared in Indiana Review, Fence, Booth, Conduit, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. His writing has been featured in the Wigleaf Top 50 and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, and Best of the Net. The host of a bi-monthly reading series in Chicago (Neon Night Mic), he also recently launched his own indie press known as Piżama Press.