Ken Kakareka

2023

It is 
a horrible time 
to be 
a writer 
and still 
it chose 
me, 
maybe for 
a reason. 
I see petitions 
to fight 
A.I. intelligence 
knocking off 
journalists 
and content writers 
at Buzzfeed. 
Damn you 
20^th century
writers  
whose print 
publications 
meant 
something. 
I knew 
I was 
a fighter. 
But this fight 
seems 
virtually 
impossible.