This is a political poetry blog which takes a critical stance on the absurd and the serious in Canadian and American politics and society. It uses poetic license as a vehicle to drive its point home .To loosely quote Machiavelli "the archer aims high in order to hit the mark". It would seem our recent expectations of democracy have set its sights so low it degraded into Dumbmockracy.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
"The Truth Will Set You Free But First It Will Make You Miserable"
We no longer think for ourselves.
We're dumber than the smart phone.
Don't bother caring for your health,
radiation penetrates skin and bone.
It's called the free market society;
like before emancipation;
the reinvention of propriety,
the spiritual is taken, from the equation.
Fill the void, to be happy;
our bodies, the property of the corporations.
Long work weeks, no time for family,
industry is built on self adulation.
The Western ego thrives on self congratulation.
It monopolizes history for its self determination,
it wants to be fulfilled, it wants instant gratification,
it wants God to notice, it wants divine glorification.
I want fame, I want the spotlight, I want attention!
Even though I'm not royalty give me my mention!
Shower me with money, talk about me please,
look at what I'm wearing, I'm like a disease.
Western culture is perpetual banality,
embedded marketing strategy.
Creative energy's stifled by formality,
no originality;
our own credulity believes:
goodness, is the equivalent of popularity.
From pop medicine to pop psychiatry;
money justifies their collective impropriety.
Your body: The Property of Medical Science,
through our over reliance,
and when you pin your hopes to a panacea,
not even the truth-can-free-ya.
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