Crookedness and Clowns
They channelized the news
the quick zapped flash of fact undeniably
taking the opportunity by storm
by the contortions of varsity
they proclaimed so devoutly
the new acceptable norm
of an already butchered normality
And who with applause
with the legalized blurb
of an unhealthful profanity
the television population
kept their provocation alive
hidden behind doors
as death walked among them
merely to survive
hearing the empty rattle of dooms day call
the trumpets fuselage had deceived them all
Oh bitter masquerade in the taste of paper
the hand molded slap
clogs the gutter with rubber
buffoons in charge of social dementia
and the sneaking suspicion
of every person
has them walking with death
as death walks among them
Untimely unexpected this demand for survival
a battering ram of glibly emergency
and save your lives arrival
comes suddenly
inconsistent confusion splutters on the TV
when the all-purpose hype
has cathode-ray clowns to feed fears delivery
then freedom of choice becomes an infection of liberty
The made-up-make-up media mass
belching the flatulent garbage of its printed press
apply their corporate hegemony assets
to techniques in management of human risks
collectively bankrupt up to your eyes in it
improving the performance of gathering your debts
and the sneaking suspicion
of every person
has them walking with death
while life walks among them
Ah but paranoia that destroyer of reason
comes sweating in its countless number of millions
and swears itself by egos vanity
who's truth will be true to plausible deniability
yesterdays insanity will teach the children
life may survive with added security
danger playtime warning isolated detachment
fear, fear, fear, is the message from them
jabbed in the arm of mandatory vaccination
And that sneaking suspicion
in the eyes of every person
ushers in a future of more uncertain
walking with yet another apparition of death
and so many other scarey phantoms
to choose from
while the liberty of choice
becomes the disease of freedom
Copyright © Colin Mitchell Williams | Year Posted 2020
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