James Moore Poet Narrative

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These New Times

(“Meditation is not what you think…”)

These New Times

These new times have turned the world upside down.
The endless cultural revolutions of the past two centuries
Have finally hit a wall, Trumped at last
As the sheer accumulation 
Of madness has become impossible to ignore,
And the people are finally really waking 
Beyond any act of being woke.

It helps that the subtle lies 
Of a vague if supposedly well meaning idealism
All hope and change, unicorns and rainbows,
Have been exposed for what they are
Just another ego trip
Of those intent on gaining
And maintaining their control.

The radical Left once anti-establishment
Grew up to become the establishment
To push its status quo agenda on the rest of US
With all the force of Big Government 
Combined with Big Business, a union 
That would make Mussolini and Hitler proud.

The Left of course doesn’t see this
Even as they desperately try to maintain 
The power that now slips away.

They still see themselves as idealistic youths
Raging against the Machine
Sticking it to the Man
When they have long since become 
The Man running the Machine.

In other words, the Left constantly gaslights US
Because they are gaslighting themselves.

(2/23/25)

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