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Debt Ceiling
September 16, 2025
When we look up we see the gaudy chandelier
The tacky merchandise for sale
Reminiscent of eve of the French Revolution
If you cast your gaze downward
It’s clear that this foundation built on debt
Is a total illusion
Rendered Powerless
September 15, 2025
When time takes over the game
Ideas created for the sake of image
Postures assumed for looks
Turn out to be useless
In the face of tumultuous change
Unconscious Consent
September 14, 2025
To what extent does unconscious consent
Rule your decisions?
If you don’t design your life
It will happen by default
Mortgage Banking
September 7, 2025
Americans tell strangers within the first few minutes
What they paid for the house in which they live
What the rate is on their loan from the bank
Concluding with how much they think it’s worth now
This establishes the anchor to which they tie their ship
The ignorance and willful blindness is astounding
It perfectly explains how the country went broke
Cosmic Costuming
September 6, 2025
Camouflage is used to keep a story circulating
Despite facts, under the guise of cultural norms
Covering obvious gaps in the narrative
With ornamental details of flimsy platitudes
Fairies in the Berries
September 2, 2025
Do fairies truly reside in the brambles
Hiding within the blackberry camouflage?
Ask which berry is the ripest with sincerity
The answer comes straight away
Is it the plant or the fairies who respond?
Cloudy Motives
August 31, 2025
Unlived lives reflect collective loss of integrity
Attached to anchors of vain spectacle
Teathered to social norms never examined
Days of drudgery tie beliefs to a story
That repeats itself to embrace the bondage
Whitewishing
August 29, 2025
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Overwhelming evidence presents the obvious
Saturation of consciousness by consumption
Leaves little room for higher aspirations
Conjunction with Shadow
August 29, 2025
Does your shadow hide in the basement
Of the church where you try to be a saint?
Has it been lurking around commitments
Showing boldly everything you ain’t?
Retrieval
August 28, 2025
Running down the season’s changes
Slowing pace over the last of the harvest
This is the last moment to harness memory
Retrieved images from childhood
Provide a background for reverie
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