We don't need
any more
helpless
heroes
no more
vanity
victims
pouting in the mirror
no more
smut-souled
politicians
telling us it'll be
different this time
or any picture perfect
celebrities
selling the lie
of happily ever after
or angry-scold
identity zealots
preaching the gospel of
ME, MYSELF, and I
or bat-shit crazy
conspiracy kooks
trading reality for fantasy
or
finally
most infuriatingly
the fanatics of FREEDOM
ready with tedious tirades
always
bellowing about FREEDOM
in parroted clichés
from colonized minds
but only
THEIR FREEDOM
matters and to HELL
with everyone else!
NO!
Enough of those
vitality-sapping
fantasy-fapping
soul-crapping
people.
what we really need
what we really
MUST
HAVE
NOW
beyond a shadow
of a doubt
in this
drowning world
in this
weeping epoch
are more
belly laughers.
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Paris, France
November 2021