Collar

The shortest leash 
and tightest collar
is the need
for one more dollar.

30/365

A version of this poem first appeared on Bluesky. Whispered into the acoustic sensors of the sleeping dreaming android, it prompted the electric sheep to generate one more tomorrow…

The AI rendered this poem as a girl holding a cat. A collar around the girl's neck with a leash leading off-panel, apparently held by the capitalist system. The cat, unconcerned with economics, seems to be free to go on its merry way.