AMERICAN SPECTACLE

Another empire crumbles

as part of a generation grips their war-ridden retirements

as tightly as they can with their feeble, arthritic hands

unbelieving that they could possibly be nearing the end of the ride

with life to spare during which they may see it all

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They hold on to war, unaware that by so doing, they cannot claim

to have ever loved their children

or themselves

or anyone’s children for that matter.

Generations under them, holding them up, but ready to let go,

coming to grips with the fact that

they were always orphans.

That having a family of one’s own is now

reserved for the rich.

That elders to whom they can seek wisdom

are few and far scattered, or often locked away in

old people’s prison

by a system purposefully made unstable.

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Millions delude themselves in myriad other ways.

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Gigantic, mediocre music festivals,

clowns captured on countless cameras acting the fool,

isolated masses, silly and sparkling,

truly believing they, too, are immune

even though they are already poisoned

and poisoning all with each vibration

of their bodies as they hit the earth,

fueled probably by a private bank

through a credit card that will ruin their

cReDiT sCoRe as they chase their

fake optimism.

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Those parroting the propaganda

like the Wizard after the curtain has been drawn.

We see you.

You don’t fool us.

The millions of workers doing fake work, doing much of the parroting.

Untold hundreds of trillions of pieces of paper sloshing

that obfuscate the fake economy

that props up those who do that fake work.

Again, we see you.

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The decreasing number of real workers keeping us all from fully collapsing—

as they collapse from exhaustion:

these are the truth tellers,

essential, yet essentially erased,

especially the fully enslaved, locked where

you can’t see.

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Those drowning in their identities:

Victim

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Disabled

of Colour

Black

White

Brown

American

Religious/Spiritual/Relational with a Deity/Deities

or not

Sports: Athletes and Fans who don’t apply their physical labor to anything

useful to society.

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Those not drowning in their identities

yet aware of them and how those identities are used

to divide and conquer us,

how we are pitted against each other based on these hollow shells of self,

who are aware of how those identities are used by

the imperialists

the capitalists

the globalists, if that’s your frame,

who are aware of how certain identities are attacked more than others

to uphold this madness.

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The wise few, organizing, caring for their communities,

doing what they can to educate and activate those aware but beaten.

The thankless few.

But they do what they can,

what they must.

The masses spit on them,

celebrate their imprisonment,

their murder,

not aware that if the few fail,

we all fail.

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Chances are

I wrote this for you.