Sit Transit Gloria Mundi

Sit Transit Gloria Mundi Rick Folker Our current consumptive culture Salivates over "Tech" and "Cell" and "Screen" That transmits the lurid, pornographic Apocalyptic scenes. We long for the end Of the endless 24/7 hollow info Hoping, even praying that The Moral Arc would start to bend. The dreadful, the destitute in their death throes Are caught by our ever-present lens; The Schadenfreude tourist Documenting the world's worsening woes. We check off the trauma As part of our Holy Bucket List And tune in and tune out of another Kardashian/Jerry Springer blitz. All along we lurch from crisis to crisis Bankers scot free, Blacks burned in worship While blaming the ever-elusive Isis White supremacy in the land of the free? The clown in the White house doesn't get it .... Or does he