It is the year 2036

and yes,
J-Lo still looks amazing.

Morgan Freeman still looks like . . .
Morgan Freeman.

Lil Wayne is 53. He still drinks lean
and recently started telling everyone
that he invented hip hop.

It is an election year.
Beyoncé is the Democratic Presidential
Nominee, and her campaign slogan is
“To the left to the left.”

Conversate is officially a word;
skurtskurt is also a word.

On TV, there are commercials asking if you
drank Four Loko in the 2010’s, because
you might qualify for financial compensation.

Popeyes just brought back the chicken sandwich,
Chick-fil-A responds by opening on Sundays
and McDonald’s finally fixed the ice cream machine.

Arby’s went out of business 10 years ago,
and no one has noticed.

Candy corn is illegal,
Milky Ways are also illegal,
but you can still buy guns at Walmart.
We had a mass shooting last week,
and it wasn’t even on the news.

We still write poems about racism.
Most of the police force has been
replaced with drones.

Unarmed black people are still being killed, but
now it’s called a mechanical error.