~
the people launched
their ship of fools with
no master at the wheel
and ballast blown,
the asylums fall into
the hands of lunatics
as businessmen become
politicians, bartering for
their piece of the world,
social media graffiti, the
new bible of lies, spews
its endless bait, false vomit
confetti that spatters our
consciousness and twists
truth into sweet mouthfuls,
the youth are diseased
and weak from being
hooked as easy fish, gaping
helplessly as their
intelligence is traded for
worthless counterfeit
currency,
and old poets write
farewell odes in dust
and tears wondering
how it came to this.
*
© Graham R Sherwood 08/25
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