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Somnambulists

Incognizant of the excrement,

I'm the dozing tenant of advertised adversity.

I ignore the fact that the world now is like a toilet,

And I avoid it, I avoid it, I avoid it.

Boy, did you get exploited?

How could we know we're

No more than numerical exponents?

Can consolation prizes console him?

We're not aware of the ventriloquists

Or their true motives.

Popular perfume conceals

The stench from the load of,

Finite excrement that

The suited men sold us.

They told us that it would be beneficial,

Not an imposition on our self-image,

Pinocchio before he found

Out he was artificial.

Is the American Dream a reality?

Why did I hear a dissenter

Say it was superficial?

We must have missed something,

We see no issues.

Meanwhile, my Uncle Sam designated

You as the mental missile.

 

Originally written 5/25/11

Revised 10/15/14

(c) 2014 Brandon Antonio Smith

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