See What You Get Do-Gooder?

No good deed goes without some type of recompense

Go question a soundbite maxim you’ve always simply parroted: You’ll get laughed at and belittled

Donate millions for rhinos & elephants but ivory poaching will remain profitable until they’re all dead

Work late nites preparing as a new teacher just to learn how school alone cannot save your students

Watch how after decades of work on diseases, ignorant vaccination superstitions bring them all back

Your football & golf viewing decreased slightly but real men still learn sports stats, not new job skills

Some stopped idling giant pickups thru fastfood takeout lanes – To waddle in for a couple of LottoTix

The snack food aisles might even get a little less crowded, but only if you can’t buy cookies on SNAP

The uninsured swarm for way-overdue free treatment by rich dentists - who need the tax write-offs

That evil BigAg is ruining our soils! Excuse me, I need to go spray pesticide, fertilize & water my yard

Your civic-minded tissue donation gives free raw materials to a profitable cosmetic surgery supplier

Hard-earned contributions to worthwhile causes line the pockets of slick non-profit entrepreneurs

Buy a quiet green hybrid & they’ll gleefully blow clouds of chipped-diesel smoke back in your face

Your clan loyalty is co-opted by corporate sports, factory beer & extruded snacks of sugar, fat & salt
Fossil fuel puppets easily repudiate solid scientific research using catchy lies & snarky-grin sarcasm

As you try to rid your diet of industrial toxins they oblige with clever false advertising & higher prices

Put away a little bit every week while those who don’t get even more new credit - Post-bankruptcy!

Write your congressman all the letters you want but…they only heed their anonymous Corpro-donors

Dutifully recycle everything while libertarians pickle such garbage in their family toxins: At the dump

You can join the Sierra Club but you’ll always still find new bandit ATV trails in your favorite places

Take your kids on their first fishing expedition but don’t forget: The catch is too full of poisons to eat

Respond to your innate need to faith & get fleeced by greedy and horny Religion Sales Executives

Question massive unaudited dEfense spending and be branded as a weak, unpatriotic, vegan coward

Ask about trying to break the cycle of poverty and get scorned as a foolish & out-of-touch snowflake

Protest neighborhood fracking with other families & have your concerns whitewashed & ignored

You can go low-flush but there’s no political will to address the oncoming global water shortage

Spend all your minuscule free time with the kids, but Big Media still dominates their socialization

Poll pro-environment while the leaders you elected gleefully gut all such agencies & their regulations

Safely dispose of pesticides but get poisoned by the toxins in your car seats, couches & mattresses

Fret over our long-ignored infrastructure decay but just sigh as so much publicity goes to LGBT issues

Own a dozen guns but be unable to protect your family against obesity, heart disease and ignorance

Ignore our vast food animal holocaust but don't let one multi-gen single welfare mom prevent a birth

Proudly display pink ribbons but let those gross prostate cancer sufferers languish in shamed silence

Don’t even whisper that all families & no single parents should be licensed before having kids

Just try to discuss a single payer healthcare system & be branded as a tax & spend, socialist nanny

Ask why capitalism drove us into a mass extinction and they will all know that you really are crazy

Question the reality of God’s mysterious, but horrible & unfair, plan for us all & you shall go to hell!

A Mostly Empty Mass Existence

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