Crazy quilted commentaries,
Fracture minds mosaic,
Understanding’s dysentery,
Trauma’s formulaic.
Tag: spectacle
Martyrs of convenience
One cartoon common courtroom show
One acting judge so apropos
Rolling bench deep in the dough
Reclaimed for television’s
Afternoon decisions.
Plaintiff and defendant both
Birthrights sold for reserved notes,
Smack down in the court,
Justice now a sport,
Coarse verbal attacking,
Sarcasm, wise cracking,
Decorum is deterred,
A spectacle preferred,
As a common wooer
Runs law through a sewer
Skewing every viewer
Peripheral wrongdoers
Victims of expedience
Martyrs of convenience
Pony Rides
Well aware man’s fallen state
Power brokers regulate
We the people animals
Within our propaganda stalls
Await the truth so rationed,
Reality re-fashioned
To stories for consumption,
To play on mainstream junction
Where we line up for pony rides
Missing six guns by our sides
Dawn we proud for all to see
Our deductions you and me
A costume hat and chaps
Spurless, empty gunny sacks
Riders on the soundstage storm
We their cartoons who perform
Within their dream full willingly
Acting out for all to see
Their lawlessness projected,
Victim groups on cue directed
Trotting round their laughing track
Quarters that we only lack
Ride predictably too short
Pony rides our last resort,
Pointing with our finger guns
Other riders come undone.
Should we dare say bang or pop?
Speech a crime we must pre-stop
Clever band of brothers
Who pen us off from one another
Thoughtless, motionless ourselves,
Action figures on their shelves.
Cucumber Lodge 