The earth is a voracious fiend
swallowing time
as the wallowing swine
eat their own filth.

Ignorance finds
its’ perfect apprentice
as people line up
to devour themselves
one lie at a time.

Spin doctors
spin records
reporting fictions
as reality.
Despite the truth
people laugh
say the lies
feel like facts
and the facts
are a conspiracy.

So, refugees are terrorists.
Whites become less racist then blacks.
“Black Lives Matter”
becomes a racist chant.
Cops never lie.
Every time
they shoot someone
the victim was definitely
going for their gun
and climate change
is not our fault.

I sit back
crying
because
I tried to debate this
believing people
are not idiots.
It just seems
that I am losing
and the doomsday clock
is not a nuclear metaphor.
It is a countdown to
the return of the dark ages
or complete environmental
annihilation.