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American Psychosis

American Psychosis
The sun, the Son,

ECLIPSED 
Overshadowed by
Dark clouds of 
Bloated EGO and ID
Me supersedes We
The people1
Will weep

 DEADLY SINS
 More than seven
In one
Narcissist ‘king’ of
WRATH, HATE, REVENGE, 
Not a 
‘Dish best served cold2
But with anger 
Evil so bold
SCOTUS behold! 

Bunker-Busting Bully
Historical ignorance, ignominy
Big Beautiful Bombs or
Tariffs Coercion

Psychotic projection
Weaponized state
Now fully effected
No critic is safe

LUST 
When you’re a celebrity
You can do anything
Predatory
You want 
Assault, murder, rape, 
Cheat, steal, defraud

LIES 
Free speech
IF you’re with us
‘Fake news’
If you’re not
We have 
‘alternative facts’

GLUTTONY and GREED	
Never satisfied with 
What you have
Never enough!
Never enough!

IDOLATRY 
Genuflection 
To the ‘Golden Calf’3
Crown of Orange
No thorns4 
Nor Pain

LAZINESS, SLOTH
Reap rewards from
Work of the plebes
Let them eat cake5
Simple living, no steak
Accountability – None

ENVY
Look up to look down
The billionaires ladder
The one I will climb
Not Jacob’s sublime6
But the movie 
On the horrors of war7

PRIDE and VANITY
Peers, I can tolerate 
But
 I am the best
Losers and suckers
Make up the rest
OK to call on them
To squelch the unrest

Parade
Honors ‘Dear Leader’
Who dishonors
Misuses the troops
MAGA, sycophants,
And Nazi salutes

No impulse control
Chaos, Disunity, Autocracy
Unreined
Breaking Bad8

RESISTANCE
Inevitable 
‘No Kings’ 
In ‘our land’
Despite fear of 
The worst
Assassinations, arrests
Uncivil will be
Armed 
‘There will be Blood’9
On the streets
Where chaos will
Reign
Unless it be tamed
1 Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
2 Joseph Stalin
3 Exodus 32
4 New Testament Gospels
5 Dubious attribution to Marie-Antoinette 
6 Genesis 28
7 1990 movie on the horrors of war
8 Breaking Bad, highly acclaimed TV series
9 Gangs of NY 2002 movie			`Copyright @ Mel Gill 06/14/2025

Copyright © Mel Gill | Year Posted 2025

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Date: 6/24/2025 6:46:00 PM

Sounds like the end times. I confess I didn’t read it all, that level of derangement is not something I want in my head but I did get a glimpse of an American psychosis so well done. It’s a fave!

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