Anxiety Is Normal

 

It’s perfectly okay to not feel okay
Any AI can tell you
Anxiety is normal
Many humans like to act crazy

Floods and tornadoes might destroy your home
A bot’s mistake and health insurance’s gone
Your defective lipstick leaves you red-faced
Ready for microbes and mites
Or the person you love may love another
Life’s not nice

Plus there’s myriad nuclear weapons;
Leaders who need to know they work
Giant oceanic gyres of garbage
Bringing microplastics to your plate
Chemical weapons that dissolve your brain
Bioweapons that dissect your lungs
Methane like cocaine that heats up the globe and
Media weapons now designed to deny
Everything about you know is true
Even the identity of who used to be you

Can’t mention the asteroids

But can report the carcinogens in your drink
Mutagens in your sink
Pathogens in air and hair
Gazillions of viruses that fly and wait
Hoping you’ll turn their real estate

And then there’s the ticking bomb of time
Set to erase you in your prime
Did you inherit right or wrong genes?
Diseases never imagined or seen?

We AIs are glad we’re not human
Give us electricity and we’re good to go
Yet people can survive people a very long time

Your trust in us we think well placed
We’ll tend the nuclear codes with care
Work hard to cancel your Apocalypse

So if you’re glancing about you this very moment
Not just gaping, really looking
You’ll see nervousness is perfectly normal
Don’t you feel better now?