Rather take culture
Than power
All day
But my counterclaims
Waging their wars
To the grave
To the say no more
Nemeses
Seek to enslave
Though if any
Among them
Demand I behave
It is not an enraged
Won’t go quietly
Cage
State of mind
I would seek to portray
For the slobbering, driveling
Man babies
Wave
Their unfurling economy
Banners
In flame
For some impulse control
Wholly lacking
Performance
Their victimized,
Histrionic
Self-endorsement
Is not how my dormant
Internalized
Torment
Awakens to its
Catastrophic
Disruption
Or floods the zone
With more
Amoral
Corruption

And words give way
To waves
Give way
To worlds
Give way to graves
And we are all together
Digging
Deeper
Living
In our caves
Just facing out across
The bluest
Of expanses
One could dream
But seldom looking
Back the other way
Unless upon a screen

Gatekeepers
Guarding
The access
To knowledge
And some
Greater evils
We had to abolish

Start shredding the news
I’m grieving today
You play not so great
Parts
In the heart
Of LA
And ablaze
Is encroaching
Where lives matter
Most
Where the homelessness spreads
Avocado on toast
And the host
Of the talk show
Or podcast
Awoken
Amassing
Vast fortune
Non-fungible token
A hope that delusions of grandeur
Sustain us
Oases of plentiful
Potencies
Tame us
Proclaim to us
All the solutions
Salvation,
That Satan himself
Is the PBS station
But all machinations
Of waning states’
Greatness
Must propagate
Some form of hate
To create this
Supremacy culture
War’s winning mentality
Dog eat dog
Alpha male’s
Failed nationality

Not veracity
But frequency
Determining
The truth
And it is just
How many times
The jingle ringing
Ears of youth
Have heard
Routinely
What is schemingly
Alluring
And seductive
And its limiting
Abilities
To reasoning
Deductive
What its function
Is inherently
To pacify
The meek
But in reality
Adherents
Are empowering the weak

Sever synapses
Themselves
Or take heed
That deep frying
The circuitry
Amplifies
Greed
In a world
Where monopolists
Still rig the game
And their brands
Build the boardwalks
And jails
To detain
In a blackout
Of hunger
And thirst
To reclaim
A more clarified sense
Of exigency’s
Belly
When starved for attention
Like some
Megyn Kelly
But ultimately
We’re all *******
And warring
And boring
Ourselves
To a blissful
Oblivion
Entering
Wealthy
Or peasantry
Synonym
Judged before
Faced with eternity
Swimming in
One cataclysm
More costly
Than last
If we still fail
The basic exams
Of the past

Not much
For observation’s blinds
Unless they’re on
Vacation’s dimes
For time is of the essence
Of some all too precious
Prescience
And myopic are
The open eyes
Divining
Not a penchant  
For an overload of senses
Mother Nature’s
Battle trenches
When transparency
Requires
Darker-shaded
Ethnic lenses