i want my future now

the future is not
what it used to be.
we were promised so
much as children.
jet packs.
bullet trains
and time travel.
we should be living
on mars by now.
having interplanetary
relations
with green skinned
women. okay,
maybe we have that.
but most of the future
has not been
fulfilled.
we had train and cars,
even planes in the early
1900's.
nothing's changed,
but our telephones
which change and get
more advanced
every three months.
put those geniuses
to work on other
things, for a while.