SOMETHING
IN THE AIR
Before
computers were king
and
took away our jobs
they
say that there was
something
in the air
Once
we didn't need face masks
to
protect Joe Public from us
and
our coronavirus
don't
breath on me John
where's
your surgical thing
When
we invented things
built
the first train
laid
the first tracks
who
sewed the buttons
on
the trousers by hand
When
the chimney stacks
rose
up three floors above
the
cotton mills down there
and
the crowded canals were
the
highways of their day
Before
the first telephone rang
and
television ruined our lives
and
turned our children into
people
we didn't recognise
Before
artificial intelligence
social
distancing and the
silent
killer in the secret room
before
robots walked the earth
and
the virus came to cull us
16042020
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