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Open Poetry #50

Coming On Christmas (redux redux)

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2019-12-20 01:41 PM

We are deep into the Silly Season
when caves of dream merchants once again
are almost spinning in a whirl,
all awash in pricey glitter
naught but empty fluff in sight,
like Congress packing lies and promises for home;
so it's coming on Christmas
or so Joni used to sing at night
way back when,
she was just a bright eyed slip of girl
Tin Angel waitress full of her own empty promise
of delight.

Can we still say that?
Or is this another thing banned
beyond meaning,
thought crime that needs cleaning,
a gender diminutive
and two "C" words
that could bring potential images of infamy,
maybe light a neural synapse
maybe even two.

Wipe out all errant thought !
Zuckerberg's trolls prowl through the night.
Like children we have trashed the board
to restart old familiar games,
We've learned a few new names
and hope a shining hero tames
our enemies making good on all his claims.

We ought to have grown up more than this by now,
don't you think?
We should not shrink from acting as adults
in meeting our responsibilities.

Sorry,
forgot we're not supposed to think
for ourselves;
I better watch the lamestream News
as they feed me polling tested clues
so I'll know what I should choose
to hold the views I'm told to hold,
accepted,
comfortably dissected
already pre-digested snooze,
‘cause gods forbid
I might come upon an idea on my own,
based only upon honest information.

Oh no, there's one of those words again
when will these traps of treachery end?
Perhaps oh lord, perhaps
after I am glutted by the Hollow Days.

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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2019-12-20 09:59 PM

Great write, Charly. Mirrors my own thoughts.
Heaven forbid I should have a thought. I guess pretty soon the thought police will be snatching them right out of our heads.

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