It is in the petty dribble of officialdom
the authoritarian contempt
snarls it’s canine hate of standardization
Vindictive in the files of paperwork
the red tape cold blooded ribbon
of your demoralisation
Faceless, emotionless
regurgitated institution
the implacable tax on being human
Each printed facet of a fascist regime
a suckling vampire at the breast of freedom
feeds an elitists greed
You are property
Ordered, dissuaded and indoctrinated
the glib maintenance
of the happily persecuted
By every difference so divided
to lose your sense of unity
and celebrate the abuse of humanity
And by threat, and fear, and legal debauchery
use it’s violence
to support your conformity
Such are the wiles of educational belligerence
the malicious criminals
of self importance
You are property
Enslaved to the masterminds of their own comfort
willing participants
to the gorging of parasites
They hate you
disgusted by your poverty
they disdain you
Deprived of your humanness
they use you
fill their bellies off of you
Faceless, emotionless
regurgitated institution
the implacable tax on being human
You are property
it is complete --
protestations of the existentialists notwithstanding --
the end of history.
Science is here.
slammed over me.
and everywhere
the necessity of Standardization.
in my labor
and in my thought
Capitalism dictates.
efficiency is the new God,
except for the God-people themselves of course
who experience choice
and embrace the Absurd
as i spectate.
now, hidden by a lifetime of fantasy
or tortured by enlightenment
either way, bound by survival to succumb:
i release my mind to the Average.
where is Meaning?
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