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This story is true.   I claim "they" could be behind your walls.   Right now.   I don't have any red pills, except colace, unfortunately.


 

Take the red pill

I talked to my brother in his placid state
I said there was urgency that couldn't wait.
He should take the red pill, see the sabotage
Not stay with the blue pill in a mirage.

I told him there were little men in our walls
They could listen in on his phone calls
They could spy on him whatever he does
Nothing personal, just because.

They could sabotage his life in any scene
Like a reality show, where they could intervene
They take delight in psychopathic manipulation
Leave a trail of wrecked lives, in this nation.

He heard me out, and looked sad
Its classical paranoia, and I've been had
People behind walls, poisons through the air
Can't get crazier than that, reality laid bare.

His friend gave me an anti-psychotic
Its color was blue, its imprint exotic.
He said you're crazy, but it runs in your clan
Face your disease, be a man.

I said I would not take the blue pill
His disbelief made me frantic and ill.
I said the red pill lets you see the extreme
It's really you who are living in a dream.

I said yesterday's paranoia is tomorrow's fact
Science looks like magic, in its closing act.
But I lost, so I pretended to take the blue
It's easy to appear sane, if you don't say what's true.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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