We joke, but we watch the screen.
We hear (I don't say listen to) bad songs,
the dumb dance thump.
We breathe subsidized fire,
Rebel with criminal hemp.
We drink fuel to forget us.
All is to forget. Addicts of oblivion,
We deny the hook. Divide our distractions,
Rate each sliver, to mask their hulking mass.
TV's a dull lowclass drug, sex a rule-breaking hurricane,
books noble but movies more fun, love admirable and risky,
booze sad, fights dumb, food crude, acid passé, romance
feminine, theft rebellious, martyrdom obsolete, dieting
normal.
Bored? You can skip ahead, skip the list. Fast forward.
Fast forwarding to the good bits is sensible.
And caretaking is warm, glamor sexy, solitude crazy,
psychology spiritual, status fulfilling, money freeing,
speed progressive, the other speed degenerate, efficiency
American, possessions playful, poverty wilful, lying fine,
sports hearty, power sneaky, tranks tragic, approval
necessary, cars individualistic, nicotine sleazy, God
(31 flavors) annoying, work essential, pot seedy, creation
justified, gambling tough, caffeine routine, shopping
banal, crack black, puking pathetic, chocolate lovable.
(To say nothing of the net
which hasn't hooked us yet.)
A thousand more drugs, each alone in its apartment,
Ignoring the neighbors unless they're loud.
And so, the hideous rainbow hides.
All the americans, tech-gods all,
Live in this box of wonders,
blinded by rainbows,
and outside (really in) our bodies yell
to be let in (really out) like cats at the door.

Excuse me, the cat is at the door.

I'm back now.
Such innocence about our horrible dis-ease.
Our best are junkies, and the worst are full
Of passionless voracity.
Drunken nation
At the wheel of a blind car,
No computereyes can stop the crash!
We look away from us--
at anything, sweet nothings,
to dull the soul claws--
Look away, look away,
Look away, dicty land.

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