A Progression – Latchkeys to Logarithms

Latchkey kids with a lifetime to unlock.

Time stretched out into pastures

New.

Infinite –

Springing up.

Green under plimsoled

feet –

Following

Directions scrawled by the snaking lines of the

 Usk.

Long before Google copyrighted maps.

And Alexa was up for a chat.

Yet –

 We always found our way home.

Somewhere between chicken on the

Railway tracks

And a snack

Or two at the mobile store.

Before settling into

Our secrets  –

Penned on paper – ready for later

A diary,

secured with a clasp –

Not a password for hackers

To usurp

Besides, no one would dare

Invade privacy

Like that.

Trolls once merely

Unsavory characters from

Brothers Grimm and the Mabinogion –

We said nice

Or nothing at all.

And apples

Were for bobbing

And a breakfast treat.

And Catfish,

Were a delicacy

From a faraway land.

But alas we progress

Or digress.

But Chatty knows best –

Just ask AI –

A simple prompt will

Do –

Nothing ornate.

Or in depth –

In no time at all

He’ll tell you why

We should buy  –

The wares in

This new digital emporium –

Manufactured on html-

 blocks-

Designed for oblivion

From the capitalist

Ideal.

• Image Acknowledgement: Dallee generated
• AI Free Acknowledgement: This is my own work and has not been generated in whole or in part by AI