You are Surrounded
Night and Day
By Moving Idols
They soothe you
To Restless Sleep
And wake you
To your daily Dream
They watch over
Your Children
As they eat Their
Breakfast and
Stare out greedily
From cartons of corn
They are the Gods of
The conquering
Empire.
First
comes Mammon
King Of the rest
God of value, gold,
Currency and desire
The yearning that
Destroys all other
Yearning and makes
Them forget their
Humanity, life and
Sacred purpose, all
For the glitter of
Gold and the holy word
More. More. More
Repeated a million
Times in a million ways
To worship Mammon
Makes you a dead one
Walking. A slave to
His Cause.
Second comes the
All Seeing 'I'
The eye that stares
Back from the tops of
Laptop screens
and views you from
Every angle
Filling the hole
Where Omniscience
Was declared dead
A billion innocents
Shake for the camera's
Love and pour out their
Sanctity on Computer
Screens, For the sake
Of Hollywood Dreams
And the fascination
For you to revel
in the loneliness
Of the All-Seeing-I
Third comes the
Modern virgo, to
Stay healthy young
Forever vital, pure
And strong, to be
The ever cheerleader
The ever high-school
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When You Can't Go Forward And You Can't Go Back
Non-FictionThe thoughts, thunks, imaginings, phantasies, poetry, prose, essays and wordspasms of Donovan Volk, a despairing activist-writer who survives on eggs, potatoes and waxy apples. Much if not most is taken from life. When the author is not sitting in...
