FREEDOM DAY? - a nightmare
I almost died
But
so did you
The
story is old
Before
it is true
And when it’s gone
It’s
gone for bad
So
put out the bunting
And
try to be glad
The empire of song
Is
dancing away
The
vessels are sinking
The
birds have gone grey
The squares are deserted
Or
maybe obscene
The
windows are breaking
The
sea is Joyce-green;
It’s a time of regretting
And
making new friends;
A
time of denouncing
And
making amends;
The words that go deeper
Are
gasping for air;
The
world that is better
Is
not very fair;
What was impressive
Is
now dinky and mean;
We’ve
grown better whiskers
And
eat to be lean;
Delivery is billions
And
content is queen;
We live on the edge
Of
extremes like two stars
Gaseous
and distant
And
brutally far;
I try to get closer
But
truths cause a rift;
We’re
adrift on what’s melting,
The
soul train needs some more coal;
Brazil is burning
And
the moon is awhirl;
The
decade is coming, it may
Some
of us are surviving
And
the rest sell the guns;
Vast networks of vitriol
Spread leaves like a palm,
Some stand to attention,
Some use a knee,
But
the plan is to transfer
What’s
good from who’s not;
By
means of napalm
In deed or in thought;
Afraid of the enemy, the bill
And the feds; the ones who
Chant
slogans, the ones who deny
The pie in the sky, the tree
That’s on fire, money that’s bled:
I’m
anxious with hawks, and with the reds.
A series of maxims enlarged by a trend:
California is burning, Death Valley is hot;
The weather is turning, it’s gone berserk!
Since
mankind devised things, the train
And
the piston, the Jenny that twerks!
We’re that part of history
Without bodily thirst;
Advances advance, AI gains its quantum
Momentum so rich brains never die
But persist in digitalised lubricant
On Jupiter's fringe;
It’s
all going to happen, it already did;
Here's the finale, when you have binged -
Enjoy juvenescence, time's done its worst.
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