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Adventures of a Supermarketwe went to the supermarket, / took our cameras to photograph / homogenized colors like the milk

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American CityAmerican city, your roads make me gasp, / Hold my breath with cancerous anxiety. / Your sidewalks,

@blair-butterfield39

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American Dreamtime: A Scrambled Memoir Of Poetic Future HistoryIt seems to have spontaneously combusted, but it didn’t. The disease struck long ago, brewed in the petri dish of Depression, WWII, and convergent technologies. Well before that, really, but that was the point of critical mass. By the 1950's, it was an epidemic. The independent Republic of individuals, small towns, coherent communities, distinct cities, local diners, shops and stores tied together with two lane blacktop was crumbling. Things only got worse faster. It was a disease of toxic, lulling dreams. American Dreams. And standardization was its crushing foot that flattened everything and left a homogenized wasteland in its trail. The old gods vanished and the new became despots. Go anywhere in America, Boston or Biloxi. You can’t tell where you are. Most shop at the same stores (real or virtual), eat at the same chain restaurants, wear the same clothes, gulp from the same Internet, swallow similar information, and think (within acceptable variations) the same thoughts. Even sin has become tediously consubstantial. Knowledge has been supplanted by content. Words are squeezed of meaning. Everyone is an expert and no one knows anything. Except Siri and Alexa. The Dreamtime of consumerism, consumption and conformity dominates. All that remains to come is the dominion of AI. Then we will all be *watched over by machines of loving grace*, free to graze in bovine bliss in the cybernetic meadows of bland utopia.

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America The Once BeautifulYou stood in the limelight / before a shaft of blazing luminescence / emitted from the zenith positioned

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flourishsynaptic overload / grief relieved through / chemical intervention

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The shell of a manLayer upon layer upon layer / Oh but the thinest of veneers / Each one a story, a painting

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WalkI took a walk looking for a reason to come back home, / And searched for Beatrice along the way. / I too, a wayfarer looked for a response that cannot be homogenized

@stanley-david10

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The Things You Hear and The People You Meet In BarsCheck the yellow pages / And the funny papers / We gotta find those contact lenses that will change our brown eyes blue

@tommy-johnson23

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Scuse Me While I Kiss This GuyScuse Me While I Kiss This Guy / it was purple haze / it was all the rage

@david-nelson30

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Walking Sidewaysmindless mindset / keeps reality homogenized / **** on this rose colored glass

@Sarah-Depression-and-the-5150s16

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Graffiti: Banksy's Blotches"You know how I art ... intimately" / On broken city walls with crotches / these times I stencil is a parody

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the night of the night of the meekWe’d stumbled upon it simply by chance, / Playing on a channel heretofore unknown to us, / Almost as if the remote, in a final, desperate attempt

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Bungalows in Whit haven, Galapagos....Just bland insipid opaque walling / uninspiring without toned definitions / soft spongy frothy carrying anemic lustre

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the night of the night of the meek(POSTSCRIPT TO AUTHOR'S NOTE: As the bit of my brain which allows me to actually complete a piece of writing seems to have gone on hiatus, this chestnut is re-submitted for your approval) / We’d stumbled upon it simply by chance, / Playing on a channel heretofore unknown to us,

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HomogenizedHumanity / is now in a / blender.

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