Upside Down World
I’m not sure exactly when it flipped
It certainly didn’t happen overnight
But the world I live in now
Is upside down from the one I was raised in.
Today criminals, not just the mild ones,
Do what they do with impunity
Knowing they will likely just walk free.
Low trust has replaced high trust
Across the whole world.
First we have the Trump assassination attempt
Which fails by just a hair’s breadth
Not coincidently the first and only rally
Out of hundreds that CNN chose to cover live.
And now in a complete inversion of justice
More than just a few openly
Celebrate Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination
While wanting to let child murderer
Nurse Clancy just go free.
The cult of death and destruction
(In the guise of “hope and change”)
Has taken over our institutions of learning
Higher and lower, the mainstream media
Entertainment, sports and movies,
So it’s no wonder confusion is the norm.
Today in America the native born
Are second class citizens compared
To the latest tens of millions
Who just poured in illegally,
And the most deranged individuals
Of the tiniest slice of an obscure cult
Get elevated to celebrity status
For being beta boys in alpha girl’s sports.
While regular folks,
Those raised in a different century
Or those wanting to simply raise their children
In a world where common sense
Is something still common,
Have a harder and harder time finding
Where such a world even exists.
In a world turned upside down
In a world without shame
Only the severely imbalanced seem able
To ever find their way.
The rest of US are just too damn furious
To even care, hunkered down in our bunkers,
Waiting, waiting for a world gone wrong
To right itself again.
(9/15/26)
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