Kevin Higgins: New Rules

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The New Regulations

In the future, which begins
yesterday, everything will be obligatory.

The yellow alerts for weather, terrorism
and infections have all gone orange.
You could be arrested for being in possession of
not enough antibodies.

Everyone is in favour of this,
except random mad women and their bovine husbandoids
who won’t be allowed cross the county boundary
to buy a second-hand jacket for their greyhound,
without showing a smart-phone photo
of a recent orificeoscopy,
and DNA evidence
the uploaded orifice belongs to them.

This is a future in which everyone
gets to be a special detective
at least thirty seconds a day,
and stand there sniffing:
are they? Aren’t they?

From the cut of that old coat,
probably not.

Kevin Higgins

RollingNews

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