Every chance we get,
we’ll fail one another.
All of us.
We’ll talk over one person;
ignore all the others.
We complain that no one
ever listens to us.
We rail from our personal
pulpits against the injustices
leveled against the least of us,
doing so behind the comfort
of our keyboards.
Even if we know that we’re
wrong, misaligned, misinformed,
we fight onward anyway.
At this point,
the goal seems
to be that humanity
is choosing to be as
insular, isolationist,
antagonistic as is
possible.
We’ll hate one another
from across the world,
never bothering to cross
the street.
We’ll shoot one another
emails, messages of our
discontent, before we let
the bullets fly.
But, we’ll fire those too.
Each new home sold
will come with it’s own
chain-gun turret.
(Why the hell not?
It’s the American Way,
Isn’t it?)
We’ll climb down from
our turrets each morning,
log onto our computers, tablets, or smartphones;
sending our family, friends, neighbors, and even a few
strangers a fresh round of electronic hate-mail or
a few new anti-social media posts that finally say what
we all think anyway:
“Greetings and salutations!
*******! I’ve always been smarter than you.
I hate you, but I hate myself more and I’ve
never gotten the attention that I think I deserve.
Have a miserable day!
I know I will!”
After that we’ll back our
cars out into the driveway,
We’ll get on all fours;
fellating our exhaust pipes
for about 30 minutes.
After we’re exhausted,
(Get it?! Exhausted!)
We’ll climb back into
the car and pull it back
into the garage.
We’ll punch in the code
to our home security system.
The code will automatically
activate our ambient anti-anxiety
and antidepressant systems
(conveniently included in our home HVAC unit.)
These will fill our homes with enough meds/particles
so that we will be easily sated, manipulated
all day long.
For an extra $200
these systems will also
post positive comments
on all of your social-media
posts so as to maintain
the body’s highest levels
of dopamine.
We want you to end your day
feeling like the center of The
******* Universe.
(Remember when they made posting
vague, attention-seeking updates
On social-media illegal?)
Lights out!
Time to get
the government-sanctioned
2.75 hrs. of sleep.
Goodnight!
I hate you!
Stay off
of my lawn!
My chain-gun is
set to auto!
Hail Trump!
Hail America!
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-JBClaywell
©PZPublications 2018
