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Friday, March 16, 2018

A Silent and Empty Darkness


After one very brief and flashy little leap, we all simply fall back into that eternally unconscious void
No eyes to ogle any of their oh-so wondrous latest offerings
No more ears to be tingled by even the most of those lilting advertising jingles
Nor any of their hypnotizing colored lights to be seen at all

No voice left to spout one last meaningless sports stat, movie line or rap lyric
No longer will anyone hear your so very smooth pitch for overpriced dream homes
No implanted marketing illusions can ever penetrate your undefined point in the void

No blind lusting after the latest New & Improved, anymore, ever again
Nevermore to asskiss, backbite & shoulderclimb towards furtively-anonymous corporate glory
No more braying with that loudly-drunken laughter, far too long after midnight

No longer to mass hallucinate some fanciful personal savior’s voice, inside an otherwise empty head
Never again to suffer from that painful envy over someone else’s latest purchase
Nor any upward mobility, whatsoever - For there are no directions at all in that boundless emptiness

No cinematic tears or canned laughter can ever stir your so quickly-evaporated emotions
No more boring holidays with that dysfunctional, blended family
Not a single witless meme can you snarkily help to unconsciously viralize

No longer a need for all those Big Boy petro-toys to keep you so very fully and so lamely distracted
Nevermore any of those oh-so senseless Corpro-Sport cash cow Big Games to impatiently await
Not once more to read even one juicy Hollywood headline to bandy about over coffee

No more poisoned pounds to gain while flopping about heavily on that overloaded old couch
Not even one more truth-twisting paid soundbite will you be able to uncritically parrot - ever again
No way to pimp any more highly-innovative, morally-bankrupt financial investment innovations

No way, or duty, to remember such important priorities as birthdays, anniversaries & tax deadlines
Not the faintest memory left, even if only to be quickly forgotten, from your precious tho wasted life
None from the pettiest to the noblest of any of your few, though quite muddled, thoughts remain

Nevermore to suffer even the slightest double beef-bacon-cheeseburger hunger pang again
No longer to strive valiantly to save time – All that time which you never got to spend, in any case
No unquestioned patriotism left with which to defend our exceptionist nation’s precious sovereignty

No agonized, childlike waiting for all those quickly-forgotten & thoroughly-wasted weekends
No longer to be plagued by that vast liberal media conspiracy striving to nanny your very thoughts
Not even one brand of comical religious control fantasy available to artificially comfort you

No more everlasting love to be proven once again, with costly diamonds & vapid luxury cruises
No longer able, or ever again needing, to put off those frightening questions that actually mattered
No Happily-Ever-After to re-finance one more time, with no money down

Yes, never again to emerge from a guaranteed absolutely dreamless & commercial-free, eternity

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