Zombifying minds of many,
dooming them to a life rooted
in the ground. The didactic lay
forgotten, decaying in a
graveyard of tattered pages, old
typewriters, and eight-track tapes.
Monotonous drama deludes
these robots into surviving
in a reality teeming
with rape and drugs, murder and lies.
Optimism overshadowed,
out-shined forever by filth.
But even I still succumb to
this regime, an addict to his
fixation. Plug in, power on,
and wait to retrieve the signal,
for my brain to be white noise while
potatoes grow on couches.