"Frontiers of Language" - A Bijou Poem

Billionaires will invest.

Explore the vastness of space, inside particles, and ocean floor depths.

Drill baby drill. AI profits, splits.

Still overlooked, a needed frontier,

Our common words.

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*A Bijou poem is an African American poetic form that consists of five lines.

With six(6) syllables in the first line, seventeen(17) in the second line, nine(9) in the third line, nine(9) in the fourth line, and four(4) in the fifth line.