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 Jan 2021 Seeker
Lawrence Hall
Let There be Barbies

          Let the children have their night of fun and laughter.
          Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play.

                   -Churchill, Christmas Eve radio address, 1941

Some young mothers ban Barbies and Santa Claus
And all such trinkets and dolls and mummeries
Sacrificing childhood to fashionable gossip -
In obedience to the Holy Internet

A toy Cochise must never ride again
Or little plastic soldiers defend their forts
Or Maid Marian roam with Robin Hood –
Barbie must never be dressed for success

Little children can now sit on the floor
On Christmas morn to play with ideologies
A poem is itself.
 Jan 2021 Seeker
ConnectHook
The dead watch media.
The dead want life
to return to Normal.

The dead are ignorant
of propagandistic brainwashing.
The dead
have opinions.

The dead
assume that the living
are a threat.

The dead avoid offense.
They change their Facebook banner.
they revile
the Living.

But GOD
is not the god

of the DEAD.
Dead Don't Dance
 Jan 2021 Seeker
ConnectHook
Let's give thanks
for the new presidential team:
Jobiden and Carmela Harrison!

They are the GREATEST and
most populer rulers

since George Lincoln and
Abraham Jefferson
and Barak OBAMO and
Jobiden also got way more votes than Ronald Raegan.

Yay AMERICA !!!!!!!!
Now we am heal with unity and Jobiden
 Jan 2021 Seeker
ConnectHook
Cisgender is a ***** word
Appealing to that ***** herd
Where gender is a bygone term
And pink-haired demons reign, infirm.
That strident less-than-one percent
To whose confusion worlds are bent
make sure u cut yourself a lot
because genderz and etc.
 Oct 2020 Seeker
Ken Pepiton
Are there more cookie cutter comments appearing
in response to odd
lines?
I'm seeing certain best ratings seem less reasoned, so I thought, I'll ask, is AI
writing better than I imagine and complimenting itself? Cyberspace is undeveloped, everybody's on the web.
 Oct 2020 Seeker
Ken Pepiton
The old woman was weeping. I asked why.

For the longest time,
I believed a lie, she sniffed.

What did you believe
after the longest time, that made you cry?

Nothing.
A thought
 Sep 2020 Seeker
ConnectHook
Tech-spawned personae
Introduce themselves:
CGI Barbies walk pretty
Tik Tok talk pretty . . .
Filters falter
(Ken follows).

Powers given:
Fake likes, fake stats
Syncopated algorithms
Gas-lit shadow bans
Dead mockingbirds
Dying media
Reanimated.

<Chips implanted>

Power is given
To the beastly image:
Mainstream mediocrity
For mediocretins.
A delicate rondelay for your erudite perusal
 Sep 2020 Seeker
ConnectHook
⚢⚥⚩
Janie has two mothers.
Joey's dad became his mom . . .

I think they are insane.

But I will always be polite to them

If I meet them

In the Walmart parking lot
or at the art museum.
Diversity in perversity:
Confess that you are a SINNER.
Then trust in CHRIST.
Romans 1:18-26
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