4 April 2024
4 May 2024
13 November 2024 rejected for Westerly 69.2

FMRA 1

when last I spoke Latin to a lover it was under the cover of whiteness
when last I spoke Mandarin in chambers it was a hollow ask

and each time you sighed I imagined your droll eye roll and heard
the patter of tiny tantrums coming our way, coming fast

perhaps machinations would be a better word
there’s something twentieth century about it

now machine learning’s passé
the ‘age of the machines’, I went to Machine High

then Machine U, and now in digital shoes
I dance the algorithmic for you