There
wasn’t much behind their loudly-blared patriotism beyond a violent,
media-induced insecurity
Twerking
their devices was but the latest way of avoiding any unpleasant
metaphysical speculation
Their
lite, cool & refreshing factory beer was merely littered cans of
empty, brain-damaging calories
Beloved
news hosts were simply parroting paid sponsor’s
highly-charged, truth-twisting fake news
Their
sacred TV sports were devoid of real meaning but did serve as
wondrous corporate cash cows
Dusty
& irrelevant religious faiths were shown to be as effective as
any miracle fat-burning placebo
The
annual Christmas binge was based only on co-opted, hyper-marketed
faith and sales guilt pitches
Their
kid’s potentials remained virtually unlimited but...A dying world
mostly denied their expression
Immersion
in the richness of literary experience was replaced with a
self-immolation in vapid tweets
Reasoned
debate was recast as the simultaneous, loud & angry shouting of
half-truths & outright lies
Sentenced
to work til 75, most over 50 were permanently outsourced & broke
- yet loaded with debt
Seniors
searched for meaning in their empty lives via expensive visits
with Medicare-funded doctors
A
career spent asskissing, backbiting, shoulderclimbing &
downkicking left CEOs empty, but well-off
Bulky
legal documents, for which lawyers over-billed, were easily
summarized in 2 simple sentences
All
their pleasure from new ATVs & snowmachines evaporated almost as
fast as the gas they wasted
The
noble pursuit of individual happiness morphed into a meaningless
quest for the Next Big Thing
The
factory food they were fattened upon provided no real nutrition but
did fill them with additives
Turned
out the Holy Free Market
controlled demand by depleting resources & exterminating species
Their
greatest life experiences actually occurred in a numbed immersion in
empty corporate media
All
the sports stats, movie lines & snarky soundbites afforded not 1
bit of comfort on their deathbeds
Though
filled with emotionally-charged & stirring rhetoric, costly
political ads were very low on truth
Looking
ripe & juicy under special store lights, BigAg tomatoes &
peaches were floury & taste-free
Upon
review, their many tweets, texts & updates proved to be as lame
as they were inconsequential
All
their patriotic chest-beating against gun control really only
encouraged more meaningless deaths
They
waited impatiently for weeks on miserly 3 day holidays, which they
forgot in near realtime
The
sacred doctor-patient relationship morphed into 8 minutes of computer
questions & another Med
After
40 years of a wonderful marriage she quietly asked him who he was,
whenever he came to visit
Most
of their treasured artifacts were sold, donated or discarded by their
busy remaining next of kin
They
smoked noisily about in clumsy pickups with huge beds they strove to
keep very clean & empty
They
felt free to decry climate scientist’s fuzzy math though they
themselves could not make change
Declaring
people to be their greatest asset, they ordered new layoffs &
hired more benefitless temps
Politicos
had to be highly-skilled at taking 5 minutes to not even
answer a simple yes or no question
The
8 snack aisles were a nutritional desert, but rich in subsidized fat,
sugar, salt & toxic chemicals
Vast
numbers were pushed thru schools & released nearly illiterate &
innumerate - But prison-ready
The
dignity & sanctity of human existence decreased in direct
proportion to an increasing population
Every
god’s brand of eternal paradise was a mere fairy’s tale but, at
least, the faithful never knew
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