Sell or buy or both

by Craig Kurtz

Sell or buy or both
but the exit is up
next. Test pattern or
turn content, press
pound to set.

In or out or pause,
left contest the contrast.
Negate or accept, hold
right for risk.

File or save or change
but the debit runs now
through. Task complete
when obsolete.

Spend or pay or not
but restock then report.
Clear. Tomorrow always
starts today.

Miss or pass or go,
instant choice or credit
later. Here & now marked
down. Quick.

Stop or fund or raise
then anticipate past cost.
Invest percent or skip
pay rate. Time.

Think fast or far but
what you do is who
you are. Society sold
separately.

OXYTOCIN

by Craig Kurtz

got everyone responding favorably
to number therapy. It was a boon
when designer silence went black
to white. I had doubts. Too loud.

Always & never became accepted
fields of study. When unequal specimens
filled every switchboard, evolution
went cheap effects. Too bad.

From bottled words to canned thoughts
in a generation. Only then did anyone
notice the door doesn't open from
the inside. I had wondered.

Aerosol children seemed a good idea
at the time. Praxis spread like
electronic dust. Then telepathic sex
was deregulated. Big mistake.

Serotonin warehousing polled well
initially. Spectacular error in
judgment. Ditto splicing genes
in algae spores. Too late.