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Preprogrammed to function
No shred of compunction
Just solely
So soullessly
Feed our consumption
Nobody knows
Why they go
Why they leave us
Nobody else feels it
Although they believe us
No one saw their face
Emanate
City lights
No one sees it now
Keeping with
Sleeping in
Sight,
No artistic expression
Interprets
Abandoned
Like shells
Of our former selves
Talking in
Tangents
No one cares to share
Lest they hear
In their heart
An impartial ear
Fears
No appearance
Too dark
But the one
No one wants
To be seen with alone
No one haunts us
Like absent
The light they once shone
And no life form
In known universes
Has known
The extents of the Freudian voids
We are rendered
When try to forget
Just remains
What’s remembered
Crossed before
But not forsaken
For the demons
Oft mistaken
By the angels
Saving graces
Gods of mine
Have many faces
Of my making
Though
Forever
Bleeding edge
Of fates
To sever
Pleasure
From emotive virtue
All I want
Is not to hurt you
Nor convert
Revert
Desert you
To the frigid wastes
Of time
The outer spaces
Of the mind
Without some
Silly myth
To save us
Heavens gate
Keepers
Enslave us
One last instance
On the shores
Before we’re sent
To fight
Their wars
Look to your elders
Extinction
News pages
And watch as their
Actors
Stage fright
Is contagious
For shivers
And withering health
Infrastructure
Livestock market
Boom
And bust
Bubbles
To rupture
And bursting forth
Scorched earth campaigns
And elections
Yet sheepish and blind
Is the viewer discretion
For views are expressed in
Parameters
Profit-based
All the earth’s
Exigencies
Become outer-spaced
Centered on power
Corrupts absolutely
Now enter the power mad king
In his movie
Urban desolation
From the decades
Of decay
An urchin nation
Of unhoused
Frustration’s
Homeless
Take home pay
In layman’s terms
Cannot be turned
Into a ghetto
Of the fascists
Lest the sewer rats
And gators
Reinstate
Their Alcatraz’s
Yet imagine such a world
Where only people
Need unite
And the dehumanizing
Rhetoric
Need not so often write
Whatever partisan
Pretensions
Still rebranded
On display
Mutually
Assure destruction
Desolation
And decay
Study the maladies
Plaguing my people
These deaths of disparity
Separate
Unequal
Apparently
Anxious
Is not so innate
And the healthcare
To treat it
Is incorporate
Just a medicate
State
Of emergency
Rooms
Inundated
With victims of flooding
Too soon
In a surge
Of resurgent
Policing the polis
And quantum computing
The polls
Is no solace
For further replacement
Theorizing
To sicken
The still barely human’s
Transference
To quicken
And soon enough ill
Information
Malpractice
Turns once robust
Sentience
To tentacled rabbits
Just shells
Of our sorrow
Our anguish
Our pain
Traumatized
Dramatized
Movie plot holes
Contain
No explicit
Admissible
Evident
Claim
To be nonetheless
Guilty
Of levying
Blame
On producers
Consumers
And critics alike
All the cynics
And mimics
And gimmicks
Despite
No conclusive
Dispute
To we all do it too
We all know
We all feel
Not a soul
Has a clue
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