(image c/o Kilian)

IN THIS POEM, “Life Cycle,” Kyle Van Horn describes the process each and everyone of us is destined to go through– at least until this age’s mega-billionaires succeed in their mad plan to merge us with robots! Until then, we’re stuck being human– which, when you listen to what that encompasses, is not at all bad. The experience of art, after all, springs from the experiences of life.

We wouldn’t have it any other way.

K.R. Van Horn is writing full-time from an oceanfront patio in the tropics. That’s not true. He has kids to raise and bills to pay. But the writing never stops. He lives in South Korea with his family, things, and ideas. Follow him at @krvanhorn on X and Bluesky.