Long Driverless Poems

A lot of acquaintances deemed me lucky, and I knew I was,
For I had a successful life, when all could have been chaos.

I had a wonderful job that I loved, making plenty of money,
And a...

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Vets Know
                  by Odin Roark



Deployment
(Via Refrigerator Magnets)
 
Sweetheart

Should have told you

I’m sorry
I’ve buttered
the last piece
the heel
you never eat

Can...

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Grim reaper forever guaranteed eternal plentiful harvest

the following written 
for no particular rhyme nor reason
quite aware the exit (stage door left)
allows, enables, to provide every season
with a bumper crop of dead souls.

many mortals beseechingly 
lift...

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This new age technology
Have me confuse I must confess
Cause while I spending more money
Everything else is getting less

I will give you some example
Hope you don’t get depress
But if I’m telling the truth 
Just answer and...

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What hypothesis led us to ever believe in evolution? If humans evolved from a lower form, why did we stop? Is there a process that will propel us 
to our destiny, or have we reached...

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The lights of the city reflecting from the aqueous pitch, pavements in a kaleidoscope of colours create a melancholy ambience for the few who venture within. The city is transformed as the animated bustle of...

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written a long time ago

Aghast
Sans shutting the dresser fast
Lest drawing to cloths to the past.

Akin to dredging up sedimentary muck
That metaphors me whence getting stuck
During adolescence – which lasted decades 
each 'n to barreling driverless...

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Automotive experts clearly agree
Driverless cars are the thing for you and me

How did they arrive at this brilliant conclusion?
Perhaps by illusion or via delusion
Perhaps by a bit of Malthusian confusion
  --All I know is...

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Steam rises up from sidewalk grates
The sounds of the city is dense and cacophonous these days
As dark and shadows all that's seen
As the light has given way
And nature has just turned to dust
Made way for...

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She sits in her old four door car
Jittery as a stick shift
All day every day

An old fashion woman
Smoking a pack of Camels
With all the windows rolled up

Goldfish
Staring out
Blowing bubbles in her dirty bowl
To the trolling...

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Curse inscrutable highways for their immortality, 
behind limps the past of desolate reality; 
perceived with a hindsight too late for us all, 
ahead only graveyards, shadowed by nightfall. 
Bug burst emotions, martyred on the screen,...

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Workless Future 

We are fast approaching the time when robots 
can do 98% of the work, the middle classes will disappear
altogether; and here is where a universal pay will
kick in someone has to buy what...

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I've gone driverless, the first one on my block
   Even though I wear a watch and still use a clock
I may be old-fashioned in most all of my ways
   But I'll...

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Merging into the future with driverless cars,
the empty cab will feel like you own it,
or go ahead and send your private car home after you get to work,
two car families will evolve into a one...

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They say that, “computers don’t make mistakes”; it boggles the mind how the same intellect that creates the computers, makes mistakes.  How can imperfect minds, create a, perfect machine?  They can’t, the human...

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In 100 Years

In 2118 will there still be love
as we ride in driverless cars?
We will have used the Earth all up
for real estate on Mars.

In 2118 will there still be war
when all cancer can be...

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Electric cars are coming
  Driverless ones too
I wonder if you feel
  as disappointed as I do

If you remember the thrill of the road
  with the top down on your car
Wind whipping your...

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