Exposed For All To See

("Pandora's Box", 2014, original pen and ink and oil) Exposed for All to See In the world turned upside down, bad is good. And inside out, corruption long shielded is celebrated. For now at least exposed for all to see. It’s called the fall of civilization as what once held us all together, by holding us each back, collapses into narcissistic pleasure breaking tainted hearts and distorted minds into the common well, now poisoned. The weight of humanity’s collective mutational load too much to bear, spews what can’t be held, from the gaping wounds and oozing sores of Pandora’s Box, perverted pleasures, twisted identities, confused genders, senseless violence of relative values, through the broken gates of order and control. In the world turned upside down what was bad is good, and good is bad; the wicked held high, and righteous in chains everywhere sheep led to slaughter civilization on its knees, helpless for now at least, exposed for all to see. (9/8/23)