It’s the near future.
Meat is grown in labs.

It tastes the same.
If you hold your nose.

It’s the year life expectancy reaches 100,
so more adults wear diapers than babies do.
Mostly not in a kinky way.

Computers create original art,
music and literature.
Who do you think wrote this?

Surgeons have rerouted nerves
so paralyzed people can use their hands.
Recipients applauded the breakthrough.

Invisibility cloaks are available.
But hard to find.

It’s the year Alanis Morissette
marries for the third time.
It rained on her wedding day.

It’s 2028.

Times change. Power doesn’t.

Guaranteed to last ten years in storage.