We all covet stages
Or platforms
To play on
Display what identity
Leads us astray on
Some tangent
Some rant
Raving rampage
Of madness
Celebrity complex
Of I
Have to have this
This status
Attention
The followers
Mention
My image
And likeness
My personal penchant
For myriad realms
Of myself economics
Authentic pretension
Anxiety tonics
Have long been its
Mass appeal
Crack Tok addiction
And fear of its makers
Our predisposition
But trust in its fakers
A base inclination
As well
If they’re selling
The end of humanity’s
Not worth rebelling

Supreme leaders
Schemers
Worst of nightmares
To the dreamers
And the fiends
That they convene with
Filter out
The in-betweeners
With obscenely toxic
Shock and awe
Campaigns
Of more in flames
And the replacement theorists
Still refuse
To use
Their smarter brains
To take a look around
The demographic
Map with all its
Party lines
Redistricted across it
To partition us
Like Palestine

Not trying to win
No, just stay afloat
Voting
Do my civic duty
To country
Imploding
Eroding
What constitutes
Quantum leap
Can’t compute
How we’ve transformed
To a nation
Of prostitutes
No more enslaved
Well per se,
There are wages
But they just stagnate
And the taxes
Outrageous
Work multiple jobs
But still living in cages
And leaders
Are corporate *****
Wars over stages
And we can’t afford
To uplift ourselves suasion
Our station in life
Remains solely unchanged
And
The wealth we aspired
To some day retire
In firm reassurance
Is set to expire

Borders of fantasy
Tickle my fancy
This notion
I own it
And you must
Supplant me
For it to be
How this world works
After all
No amount of
Appalling crimes
Seems to forestall
The incessant assumption
The earth
A free luncheon
A boundless oasis
Of endless consumption
And pieces of its
Apple pie
In the sky
Are some property value
For which we should die
If some other
Entitlement
Troglodyte
Fights us
And alpha failed states
Send their pigs
To indict us
On charges of merely
Refuting its merits
Refusing to pay
Further into
Its tariffs