To a “Silver Generation Ambassador”
Singapore “has dispatched ‘Silver Generation Ambassadors’ to conduct door-to-door visits with seniors
who live alone to encourage them to exercise, play games like Rummy-O, and learn robotics and
other languages.”
—The New York Times
You needn’t hover at my door.
I’m busy reading, and what’s more,
My days are full, my life is fine.
The world is in my hands online.
Felicia Nimue Ackerman is a professor of philosophy at Brown University and has around 350 poems in places including American Atheist, The American Scholar, Better Than Starbucks, The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Down in the Dirt, The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, Free Inquiry, Lighten Up Online, The Los Angeles Times, The New Verse News, The New York Daily News, The New York Times, The Providence Journal, Scientific American, Sparks of Calliope, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Your Daily Poem. She has also had 21 poems in Light.