Our democracy is
hampered by management
through a two-party
system and their tactic
of keeping the general
public politically naive
so it is all made to
seem like a sporting event
rather than the hard
work of self governance.
I'm not going to waste
my time
on people who insist on
being
oppositionally
ill-informed.
If I want to live in an
alternate reality,
as a fiction writer I
have plenty of my own.
I am so frustrated by
all you very
normal people who
refuse to
act
rationally.
Is this our
worth,
what salary we
command
no matter the
calamity
attractiveness to
basest desires --
viewing humanity as if
we could be
better, moving toward
health, calm,
acceptance of life's
surprises.
Stop the despondency of
angry
suicide/genocide
expediency.
That unyielding need to
protect
make wonderful,
bursting my heart
so intensely loud --
yet nobody hears.
How can that happen,
this lack of connection?
You lionize people
happy to sacrifice
your lives if they
believe their dangerous
lies give them an
advantage.
When I was a
child
I believed the story I
told myself,
that I was from a
different planet,
sent to Earth to learn
about humanity.
I would look up into
the night sky,
trying to imagine my
home,
where I
belong.
12/13-20/21
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