Warning Contents Under Pressure
have you lost your mind
not that I'm aware of
just another flat penny train wreck
let's survey the blaspheming survivors
an army of gossiping lawn trolls
have been detected in your garden
do you
a. get out of bed
b. run screaming into the night
c. splash a little more gin
into the horn of screeching hell
that feathered chaos aviary
thronged with hollow boned creatures
squawking their disapproval
memory stolen with our sense of origin
histories plowed into an infertile soil
the old ways must perish from life
digitized of course as a memento
another nest of rubber yardsticks
for the lofty lords of unknowing
nothing to be salvaged from that oblivion
unquestioning at all costs a failure
not of nerve but of curiosity
when meaning slides sideways
and includes far more than intent
and you wonder who is in charge of mystery
words pierce the darkness up to a point
and that's when the thievery starts
and the leg irons bite into flesh
their jackal locksmith dangle the key
hi I'm an anthropologist
and if you don't mind too terribly
I'd like to pry deeper into your case
with a few harmless questions
all that meaning has got to go somewhere
how is it possible to be smart and stupid
at the same time and not know it
meanwhile our vulgarities flourish
clumsily navigating the unspoken reality
noble as a Mafia paycheck
in the cloaked world of two worlds
the hidden system of engineered ignorance
the Planned Insanity Dept.
calling for another lynch mob party
toad licking swamp thing
biggest bang for the bling
its statue missing arms and head
a winged tragic marker for all to see
the fog machine has spoken
Copyright © Walter Alter | Year Posted 2023
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