POETRY
By Thomas Osatchoff
I had a dream that I asked Duterte
what fruit and vegetable pickers will do
after their jobs become automated.
He said they will be rock pickers.
I said, but can’t rock picking also be automated?
He said yes, but everyone needs a job I deserve to be stoned.
This story originally appeared in Stonecoast Review Issue 17.
Photo by Wil Stewart.