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The Fault In Reciprocal Altruism.

The sun did Icarus no favors

His fateful day of flight,

Inanimate or not,

Certain bodies enjoy our plight.

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Once again, lost in

False perpetuation of “hope,”

Idyllic fantasies

That such a notion exists,

This symbiotic altruism,

Supposedly reciprocal

In its false entirety,

Is one major devastation

Among many in our evolution.

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Giving “freely” in “good will towards man,”

Thinking to ourselves we’ll be rewarded then,

One hand offered while the other is expecting,

Trudging through miserable life without correcting

This anticommunal sentiment

Progressive aggression, breeding resent,

We stumble through life filled with **** but “good”

Swallowing lies we create, falsehood,

The never-existing pure encounters,

Justify our ****** parameters,

“Do for me, I’ll do for you”

In fear, in hate, we come unglued,

Lay blade to table and swear your life,

You’ll never surmount, be above this strife,

Inexorably determined,

Our society lives upon scraps

And ideals old men have thrown

From a tyrannical table

Made of outdated theorems

And objectified values,

Deemed “enough” for us,

And we settle in our filth

As we praise them for their charity,

Wet with anticipation,

We just wait to be privileged enough

To be in their good favor,

To provide their main course.

Our poor blind children,

Knowing nothing of their enslavement.

Lick the hand, all is well,

Die for your master, live in hell,

Survive this canvas,

Post a status.

Die for nothing.

Universally irrelevant,

Galactically meaningless,

Walk the foggy path toward

The void, culminating in

The apex of your misguided meandering,

Blinded all your life

By all variables denying your right,

Your natural freedom,

You waste of humanity.

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andrew-p-marheine
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Aug 31, 2016
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