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Steel mountains tower over ancient minds
The mismatched soul anachronism  
Instincts progressively lagging behind 
Primitive brain sees a deep red cataclysm

Ghostly mastodons stalk the fluorescent plain 
A daunting checklist of tasks today 
Frigid rivers to be crossed in your brain 
Endless list of invisible foes you must slay  

A war without coffins, blood, or casualties 
Teeth gritted, girded in polyester for battle
It’s knives in the back and social realities  
No true combat; it’s never settled.

Unrelenting angst through every fiber
Forever hanging over the precipice of defeat
It follows you: a rapacious saber-toothed tiger
Implacable stare, neither attacks nor retreats

Gone is the clan, the intuitive belonging 
Disconnected tribe inside your building
Every woman and man the empty longing  
The neighbors you don’t know won’t come ringing

The dingy cement, windblown trash scene 
Dreary and numbing external reality
You heart calls out for a deeper green 
Light humming, phone ringing, no tranquility  

No reason to fight for any tribe you see 
Except, of course, your family on TV
Nothing to die for, unless the royal “we”
Beat the drum of prosperity or ideology

A Sabercat here, a Ghostly Mastodon there,
Back is bowed, veins on your nose
Run wrinkled hands through graying hair
A million drops in the bucket, it overflows

Just remember when you find
You don't understand the rage
That you are a savanna mind
Trapped in a modern cage  

3/29/16

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