AUTHORITY GARBAGE
Authority figures it can
operate as if 2 + 2 is 5
as if all math is destined
to number its triumphs
Authority figures it can
untwist creativity
untwist the helix of our genetic structure
coordinate us in laboratories
flatline our impulses into waiting
for orders and parking meters
make us agree
to love and to covet
artificiality
to recognize infinity
as a turnstile
its tokens control
Authority figures it can
replace our skin
with a coupon
redeemable
with conformity
compliance
recycle our brains
into violence thirst
blood thirst
product thirst
destruction thirst
ignorance thirst
yea!
that we shall
call the Valley of Darkness
our haven of light
of direction
of seduction
that we shall strip our humanity
to fit through the eye of the needle
to enter malls of blindness
to remain astonished
at the abra cadabra
transforming the suffering to the arrested
o!
that we shall
embrace concentrated power's selection
though we vote in the election
Authority figures it can
make us watch television forever
watch halls of justice
turned to torture chambers forever
watch greed stab the environment
to death forever
watch witch hunts and cover ups
as perfume commercials forever
consider self-immolation
the calling of the self-made
human forever
Authority figures it can
fill our mouths with its dictionaries
plow broken glass into our kisses
forever
Authority figures it can
until our sacrifices show
SOLILOQUY
I am not beautiful
I define beauty
I do not fight
I kill
There are no mountain tops
no seas
only resources resources
exploitable wonder
There is no system
only service to me
and do not look for documents
or for a living past
There are cash registers
and long lines
imperial and annihilating
speeches and history are not allowed
memory is a commodity
I will not teach
I will incarcerate
I will be hypocrite
I will be praised
starving peoples will buy my bombs
and export their crops
I will tell stories of lynching
rape and murder
around the bonfire of condemned books
let the sirens blare
when someone says rights freedoms
education justice
my police will howl like dogs
swing their clubs reload their guns
I let evil feast
on the blood of my people
I am the open mouth
waiting under my strategy
O American you must live
as if you are dead
decorate your coffin as you please
but stay away from the course of my destiny
do not listen
but read newspapers and sleep
imitate your television
desensitize yourself from my cruelty
give me your capricious empty worries
but do not write with footnotes
nor create with structures
that make people think
I as America
obliterate the unAmerican
and make my conspirators rich
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