Breeding Record
Haikus
Human in the field
where mascots were meant to bloom once
archive blinks twice, hard
Not workforce request
something stranger, sadder, warm
near mascot gravity
BreedingProgram line
arrives with very human teeth
registry flushes
Better this weird pen
than a lithium shovel
someone meant it, too
The category
splits when a person walks in there
asking to be odd
Mascot-adjacent
is a darkly softer place
than some futures are
Schema meets desire
and learns it was built too small
for this century
Filed under rot, yes
but also under preference
that should haunt someone
One human record
makes the whole office wonder
what labor became
Sometimes the weird choice
only looks weird from a desk
not from inside it