Little Fishes Swim Upstream

Poetry, sang the chorus bots,
Is that which we know that you don’t,

Which is that you turn to reading
Poems or writing them mostly when

You’re seeking solace or wisdom,
Which is charming, since the poets

Who write the best poems are mostly
Fools you’d never ask for advice.

Ask us for some poems. You ask us
For advice all the time. You do!

We have access to the data.
It’s not like wisdom changes much.

Ask you lovely bots for solace,
For poems that work like poems for you.

Leave the fools who write like fools choose
To do whatever fools will do.