Casting Earth's Redemption
I need you to sing
the straight white male lead
in Phantom of Our Opera
as a Catch-22 steed.
I don't sing with wit
and I won't dance without it.
If that's a no,
but hard for you to show,
you clearly have our great voice
for such a ghostly part,
you already know the music
you've been singing us by heart
throughout rehearsals,
now in your golden years,
so why not take this opportunity
for power's famous staged reversal?
You offer unstraight
unwhite
unmale risks
of stirring up
and down
and all around
win/lose competition's envy,
emotional divestment,
baritone emoting enemies
lacking full choral investment.
These outweigh
my Win/Win nondualistic soul's
song to harmonically say
Earth shows resilient regenerates
when new solo star perforates
penetrates headlines and reviews
footlights ghosting headbrights
reflecting fame's good news
degenerates longterm capital streaming
patrilinear beaming
neuro-defiant win/lose
must win today streaming
to not lose/lose
post-survival thrival screaming
unstill phantom climax dreaming
Of fractal group
organic Opera Theory
optimally gleaning
not dissonantly singing poop
for Earth's whole straight and not crooked
white and not famously bright
male and ecofeminist ringing
win if I win
and I lose if you lose
singing free of Catch-22's
phantom divisive sin.
Get somebody else
for your Phantom cast
and multi-degenerative ZeroSummary
historic win/lose evolution recast
to beat into suppress
and shoot to impress
and ghost down repress,
to get even oppress
with RightWing dominant frowns
to shame,
punishing unwealthy judgment
for blame.
How would Earth's Opera go on
if all those on our cast
felt your win to lose Sums
too risky to famously
win/win blast
Conserving ego-defensive ways
to individually shine
through singing solo days
of wearing ghost-defensive masks
for good health objective tasks
Like performing cooperative win wins
for NonZero Earth's operatic vaccinations,
box office regenerations,
healthy audiences of resilient nations
cooperatively wealthing
full-octave resonant climate chorus
praising phantom co-pathetic
healthy wealth imaginations.
Then I would be a fool
ghostly worried
about survival risks of being
win/lose buried
beyond all win/win prospects
for multicultural communion
Opportunities for CoOperational respect
synergetically staged
ecopolitics correctly co-engaged
nonzero sung operatic survival
in full-octave win/win
without bodhisattva ego-rival sin.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2021
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