On The Verge Of Extinction Poem by John Sensele

Midgets fidget in the jackets
Stooges in their besotted baskets
Pontificate and replicate baloney
In the menu that shrunk to polony

In the colony that repelled the new millennium
Shrinking hippocampi in the cranium
Where grey matter turned to water
As genes of mediocrity began to falter

Spinning in orbits
Where digital bits
By design in artificial intelligence
Metamorphosed intransigence

Into a cult
That multiplied tumult
Whether lilliputs turned left
Or right or punched the cleft

In chins of wisdom
Substituted by the reign of the condom
The chief priest anointed
When human efforts grew disjointed

Promoting illiterates
Who on social media grew into prelates
Preaching the value of arrested development
And its influence expounded virtues of egregious involvement.