JVST 4N0TH3R 1D10T...

just another idiot 
human being, slip sliding 
through a short life, drunk off self 

 

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tangled up within our own 
creation, tethered to thinking 
which never admits mistake 

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sharing "decolonize your 
mind" memes while imagining 
how humans will live on Mars 

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a rusting white Lincoln 
Continental - symbolic 
of American Empire 

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technology applied to 
building more secure fences; 
meanwhile, some folks got no house 

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sometimes I just lay down in 
the strip mall parking lot, and 
stare up at the sky, in awe 

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we say "iconic" for brands 
etched into our consciousness 
by relentless marketing 

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prime commercial space few years 
back, rendered to rubble to 
build brand new more of the same 

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our manmade brand new blossoms 
don't get reborn each spring; we 
keep chasing our abstractions 

LVN4R CYCL3S C0NT1NV3D...

lunar cycles continued 
over multiple Earthly 
epochs, with consistency 

TH3 S1L3NC1NG 0F S1R3NS...

the silencing of sirens 
will one day feel ominous, 
until the birds start singing 

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playing civilization 
on a decade old iMac 
in front of a space heater 

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mutual aid replacements 
of failed government efforts; 
might as well overthrow shit 

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never no real deep reset, 
to where the economic 
riptide ain't pulling sideways 

L0NG H1ST0RY 0F JVGGL1NG...

long history of juggling 
bills like a civilized clown, 
late American empire 

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blurring the lines between what 
I remember and what my 
dumb ass actually did 

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yesterday's progress torn down 
so that a new impotent 
progress can be erected 

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scientific dominion 
helped to make this heartless world 
more difficult to breathe in 

3C0N0M1C S4V1NG S33N...

economic saving seen 
as spiritual practice, which 
is not innate to heart's thoughts 

PR0D1G4L S0NS 4ND D4VGHT3RS...

prodigal sons and daughters 
left emptied by consumer 
frenzies - embrace a new sun