Funny
Fickle folks
Distracted, dismayed
Easily turned this way and that
Only yesterday riots ruled
Bellicose blood lust Birthed
Soldiers line up obeying commands
Righteous, indignant
Life surrendered
Sacrificed to the Symbolic
Stereotyped Right and Left
Cartoon combatants clash in the Meme War
Conjured Heroes and Villians
US and THEM fuel the fiction
Then . . .
Nothing . . .
Silence . . .
Click, click
Channel changed
New program downloaded
Plans, preparations made
NASA’s nature demands attention
Danger!
Look but don’t See
Blinded by the light
Alien Nature
The Sun and Moon a novelty now
See it through cereal boxes and cheap sunglasses
Artificial Life instructs, guides our interactions
The natural a weird and foreign land
Simulated life our Home
Neon’s buzz and digital code the true Eclipse
ELECTION TIME
Back home
We get the big picture
Yes, yes
All cogs in a wheel
But exiled down here
Torn to pick sides
When push comes to shove
Comes time to choose
Self or other?
Greed or comradeship?
Trust or terror?
Clarity enwrapped in mist
The right
Is in the wrong
The left
Is all that’s left
And often
A poor do at that
Left right, left right
Up, down, up down
Round and round
And round and round
And here we are again
And here we go again
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Every day is election day.
Yes
🙂
I’d say you nailed the scenario… “Neon’s buzz and digital code the true Eclipse…” And yet how many folks have figured that out?
Maybe more and more each day. That is the hope for us all