Images

Things are drawn all about

This way and that

Way but there’s no way out

The hegemon of views

Continues to choose

What things of yours

You must lose

If you want

To live

To give

A little bit

Of yourself

For your lover’s health

Or your people’s wealth

A second epoch

Is in the offing

But I am sitting here

Like before

Losing

My mind

This time there’ll be

Less wine and grime

More fire and iron

To get the job done

Selling my soul

For a metallic

Rice Bowl

They should have known

The mirage unfolds

The legend is a folly

Nonetheless foretold

With all its agony

Created by a moment

Of blissful melancholy

Removed from

The toils of reality

Because

That’s my only Sanctuary

The world ends

This time, though

It won’t begin again

The flaw of the people

Their attachment

To their creations

Their utility-lacking

Creations

Fictions

Statistics

Religions

Noble Lies

Show the characters

Of such

Things

People

We

Are no more

Look below

Where did we go?

I do not know

I toil at my own illusion

And revel

In my own confusion

Celebrate

My carefully crafted

Delusion

Your seduction

My naked aim

My lessening

Of pain

My escape

From attachment

I move to detachment

Destroy the government

We, no we

Don’t speak

For any of

US

Gone

We are

Off in the dust

And debris

Of integrity

Images

We see

Images

We found

Where life

Was

Before

Life I remember

Seeing once

It had in it

A great harmony

With technology

And naturality

People would smile

Even if they knew

Now we smile

Because we know not

The path of pursuit

We consistently eschew

For the images we do

All the things

We were told not to do

But hell

It’s just another beer dude

Another one

Done got nude

Through the clouds

Of hell we flew

Through our Images

Of Right

We surrendered

In the fight

So now

We live in the Dying Night

(Because we forgot to rage against the dying of the light)

We listened to Images

Forgetting to

Use our Ears

And that thing between them

Geographically

Spatially

But in spirit

Always capable

Of being everywhere

At once