Preserving Democracy

Like, it is a pure utopian

Uncorrupt system of living

Where all are wise, wealthy,

Healthy, happy, and at peace



Preserving democracy

Is a weak argument against

An encroaching fascism when

The monied puppeteers are

Putting on a calculated show

For both enraptured audiences

Selling invisible tickets to the

Madison Avenue production of

Fear

Featuring scarcity, hate, and violence

With the subliminal message playing

In the background of consumption

Triggering the populace to buy buy buy

Food, never to be eaten in “survival” packs

Guns and bullets that will never be used

Technology only marginally improved

Smaller packages at a larger cost

Locks, self surveillance systems, let alone

The ones already used everywhere

(Those Orwellian “Telescreens”

Were not installed by “The Party”

As some overt malevolent control

Yet willingly by the party members for

Entertainment and daily distraction)

Look at your hands, see the screen

Riled up at will for the “Two-Minutes Hate”

Like some Pavlovian proletariat puppet

Towards the latest random bogeyman

Pick a scapegoat and have a party

Immigrants, minorities, religions, women

Whatever is outside of one’s self to point

Fingers at while avoiding all mirrors

Reflecting the true object of one’s hatred

Because they know preserving democracy

Is the antidote for the “Strongman”

Revealing his weakness if anyone paid

Attention beyond the attention he seeks

Through bluster, delay, denial, and distraction

How much more evidence does one need

To see that, that is not leadership

Rather, a gross display of being a victim

Excusing every failure via the blame game




“The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what is happening.”

– George Orwell  “1984”


“The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.”

– Bill Hicks


“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”


– Angelo Devlin