Mortal Perambulations

Illuminated by the globe-less porch light that casts monstruous shadows across the yellowed grass, two sets of teeth lay claim to a small squeaky creature and stretched it to its limit, physically. It's tiny voice was muffled by the thick black sky bearing down on the whole untimely situation. For a moment the unopened eyes felt the cool, crisp sense of calm of the winter air before being introduced to a new kind of despair as it was hummed and purred out of existence. My only thought: I can't wait to eat my babies.

Derisory Epoch

Under the guise of reality
Life is broadcast into the room
A neat little box for personal exploration
Cathode rays heat up and burn out like clockwork
Next up, plasma screens and LEDs
Polaroids are boring
Shoot this laser straight out of your eye
Capture the image and burn it to CD
Or implant it in your brain
File C-234 under the tab Me
Click through the extensions
Eventually even strangers will be known
Secrets are a thing of the past
Live life out in the open, live openly
As long as no one else can see
(That's what gets you in trouble)
Mounted high, robotic screens capture sole impressions
While scanning the planet for black gold mines
Solar exercises renew our faith in meteorologists
Temporarily, as subsequent winters suggest otherwise
Our solution: Recreate the Big Bang
And just see what happens

Contorted Propagation

Exploding electrical prowess
Eventually culminated as mass hysteria
Unnatural obsessions replaced quirks
Humanity's humanity is drifting off
Somewhere past that blown mountain top
And across that desert pipleline
Amidst the piles of gold and rubies
Tainted black by suffocating smoke
It lies, barely breathing, slowly asphyxiating
On the very evolutionary skills
That allowed for this process to transpire
Ironic is a much too subtle designation

Navigating Clusterfucks

.....If the answers to our problems can only be
.....seen by connecting the dots, I fear we may
.....be screwed
My grandmother went on a diet years ago. She
switched to diet soda and increased her intake
of bourbon. Not so surprisingly, she's even
bigger now
..........I once had a friend who decided to get serious
..........about school. Then he never went to class and
..........flunked for the third semester in a row. His
..........father cut him off, and he had the audacity to
..........ask, "Why?"
.....If you don't believe 2+2=5 just because they
.....say so, just ponder Columbus for awhile
I'm more lenient with waiters because I used to
be one. I doubt I'm the only one who is more
sympathetic towards a previous field of
employment
..........George Orwell once wrote a book about all
..........of this, too bad nobody reads anymore

Corporations of Gratification

Civilizations rise and fall
and rise and fall and
rise
stuck in some perpertual motion
like a pendelum swings
back and forth
forever doomed to repeat
the exact same paths
over and over
if none of this is real
then why does it hurt
if none of this is real
then why won't it stop
it's all just a game
like a roller coaster
zooming around
flipping upside down
only to be returned
to the starting place
and then to set off
repeat
people are dying
we are killing ourselves
has it been this way forever
has anything really changed

Adulation Depreivation

Like some karmic joke
An unseen force that travels throughout
Sculpting monuments
Where only nothingness had been before
They rise up
And triumph in the world
Like a beacon of hope
A bright light
That cannot be dimmed
Ignoring the circumstances
That brought them about
Ignorance is bliss
But ignoring the truth
Is something else entirely
Acting as though these transformations
Were spontaneous and unplanned
The veil of love
Is thrown off and discarded
Forever forgotten

Native Conviviality

Alligators, not crocodiles,
Nestle down in the bayou
Amongst the cat-tails and nutria rats
Humanity has caged them here
Under dark starry skies,
Around September, mankind returns
Culling those too slow to dive into the depths

Taxidermists delight at the sight of such a large specimen
Enthusiastically the reptiles are hoisted up
Xyloidic monuments proclaim our superiority
Apathetic children glance as they pass
Sweaty and smiling they stroll down the hill