I re-post this most every year on Super Servile Sunday:
Super Servile Sunday
O sink not down to that corrosive couch, Docile before the Orwellian screen That regulates the lives of the servile, Dictating dress and drink, demeanor, dreams
Declare your independence from the sludge Of vague obedientiaries who fling Away their empty lives in submission To harsh, diagonal inches of rule
Poor weaklings chanting tainted tribal songs In chorus hamsterable, huddled, heaped While costumed in their masters’ liveries And feeling little while thinking even less
The very model of the State’s non-men Predictable and dull, submissive ghosts Crowded, herded through cosmic cattle chutes Reflected in dim, noisy nothingness.
But you…
But you, O you, be not of them, but be A wanderer in the moonlight, one known To God and to His holy solitude.