“We
are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think that it is
forever.” – Carl Sagan
100
trillion living cells in every amazing human body but he’s fixated
on beer and next Friday night
Beautiful
clouds and unimaginably faroff stars overhead yet shes focuses
strictly on how fat she looks
There’s
this gentle rain on a velvet night and we just squawk over some vapid
reality show or another
That
wondrous clotting cascade stops our bleeding, even as we suffocate in
a sea of puerile tweets
That
bio-electro cardiac miracle sustains us, though we mindlessly clog it
with a factory food sludge
A
marvel of evolutionary adaptation attending only to his clean pickup,
upskirts and getting off work
Billions
of neuronal connections process football gangstas in sexy tights
smashing into each other
Our
most gifted toiling only to create new methods of mass destruction
for the inevitable next war
Esteemed
and honored legislators blindly minding voter polls as they
sales-emote canned soundbites
The
Best and Brightest self-reduced to ginning complex but flawed
algorithms for greedy bankers
Working
and scheming 80 hours a week just to leverage an even more
hyper-ostentatious McMansion
The
incredible tech that forces long lives of exemplary courage upon
those otherwise already dead
That
gruesomely fascinating Gulf dead spot the size of Massachusetts at
the anus we call NewOrleans
Pondering
the incredible high-speed tech that allows us to stream kitty videos
in HD - as we drive
The
wonder of our 250 cable satellite channels out of which 2 blare 24x7
at nobody, for $200/month
There’s
that new hi-tech surgical procedure that added several weeks
to Mom’s life for only $196,500
Behold
vast, complex conglomerates: Laser-focused on more profitably pushing
sugar, fat and salt
As
we destroy natural systems making life possible, we obsess over
immaterial & petty social issues
Physicists
sense 14 billion y/o events as we cling to the faded, dusty frills of
long irrelevant religions
Millions
of drunken sperm pursue another unwed teen’s miracle egg into
multi-generational poverty
Hot
wind wastes a momentary rainbow of million year old fossil water over
BigAg GMO crop circles
Small
brown men with large chainsaws deconstruct the climax rain forest,
one ancient tree at a time
Unforeseen
and toxic reactions amongst thousands of industrial chemicals occur –
Inside our bodies
Meticulous
and understated scientific research is satirically dismissed by
amoral industry lobbyists
A
massively-expensive creative force exists to push 10 mpg Ram Tough
Hemis on apartment cowboys
Lawyers
spend years mastering legal intricacies merely to act as parasites
fighting over injured hosts
The
state of the entire planet and its people simplified to
poorly-estimated GDP & unemployment %s
The
wonderwork of cosmology overshadowed by dusty and archaic religions
based upon stale dogmas
Metaphysics
ground and chunked into greasy 140 character bites, all of a wet pet
food consistency
Spinning
with the earth, orbiting the sun around the Milky Way, but dwelling
only upon office slights
Adroitly
and constantly ignoring the onrushing eternal and infinite void to
which we all must return
Happily
parroting movie lines, ad jingles and sports stats to each other to
cover the terrifying silence
Cloaked
in chinese cosmetics and clothes, her carefully died blond life
justifies our boys sacrifices
Remote
sensing comfort or profit, these marvels of evolutionary success roam
the suburban steppes
Rainbow-hued
pools of toxic chemicals hypnotize passing children, safe in their
mother’s SUV pouch
The
vapid tries to smother the wondrous, striving to defy the cosmos:
With a loud & proud ignorance
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