How to tell a story

How to tell a story

Monday, June 10, 2013

Requiem For The Sane

You see the truth all around you
but how do you live with such horror?
murder, brutality, torture
rape, mutilation, genocide
there is no imagined horror unrealized
every disbelief becomes real

this is no age for subtlety
every government lies
every vote changes nothing
every ism is a sham
these chains that keep your mind imprisoned
every horror justified by security concerns

you see the truth all around you
and can't erase it with a Big Mac
double decaf wet soy latte
a trip to Maui sun and surf
the truth is making you crazy
they surely will lock you up

unless you become a good citizen
unless you buy instead of bitch
forget what you can' t change
happiness is masturbation
jack yourself off to sleep
peace is blindness, ignoring, forgetting

Amen