Screen of Awareness
Look up!
From tedium uncertainty -
Focus on an impartial pure lens -
Blank screen of nothing shows pulses of the soul,-
Flashing test patterns of unbiased ambivalence
And the veracity of a changing diorama.
Pause
Before the imagery in reflections
Of history’s emotionless mistress
Moments hidden
Held captive in blinking time windows -
Independent sentinel of a detached empirical.
Open
To the neutral sentience
Of a silent silvered screen
Devoid of snarled motion pictures,
Curved dolby lacking judgements,
Conscious docudrama premiered on perpetual loops!
Witness honesty
Shadowing boxing with equivocal revelation
Heartbeats captured in subjectivity’s vertigo
See screen tests of impartiality,
In amber awareness like clanging signals
For a slow train of approaching objectivity.
5-20-23
Contest: Screen of Awareness
Sponsor: Unseeking Seeker
(I learned about this travesty of justice when I saw the HBO
docudrama 'Recount'.)
In 2000 I was for George Bush but now I'm not.
Bush didn't deserve the Presidency that he got.
Many innocent people in Florida weren't allowed to vote because they and felons
had similar names.
Katherine Harris did this to twenty thousand people and she should be ashamed.
Half of those people were black and they probably would've voted for Gore.
Bush wouldn't be President right now if those people hadn't been ignored.
Gore was cheated in the year 2000 and that was wrong.
In my opinion, prison is where Katherine Harris belongs.
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