The Abyss Looks Back
(haiku)

Best thing about life.

Most things can be forgotten

in a week or two.

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The kingmaker knows
people will fall for the sham
no matter who's king.

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Construct an abstract
nobody can understand
then call it the truth.

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Censor everything
and you won't have to worry
about anything.

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In the wilderness
gods are 'few and far between'
so they made a god.

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Best thing about greed.
It gobbles up it's own kind
then devours itself.

On the brink of the worst scenario.

Obsessive behavior on a global scale.

Dumb regimes hacking email.

The future itself is just one big sale.

Sometimes it feels like Orwell

thirty years in the making.

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So, who said all this hi-tech, digital stuff at our fingertips

would be good for mankind in the long run?

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Hitler made fascism a horrific thing

whereas

Corporate America makes fascism 

fun, profitable
and so technologically cool.
  

So does that mean 

fascism is better than a democracy?

I get so tired hearing them say,

'This Is Not What We Are'

when it's exactly what we are.

GOP, the Greatest Party

They governed us into the great depression,

the great resignation, the great privatization
idea and more recently the great recession,

Great! I think to myself, just great!

All this greatness really grates on my nerves.

if she holds her breath and survives the dunking
she is guilty of witchcraft
but if she drowns then she's considered innocent

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the leader steps out and gets something done
then is accused of doing too much
by those who don't want to do anything

While  shooting pool at the senior center I listened to everyone's opinion about world affairs and it occurred to me so few opinions actually apply to the way people live their life's but just having an opinion seems to make them feel better about themselves.  So, I thought to myself, in haiku, if you

change their opinions

you disrupt the foundations

of their self esteem.

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We are all so flawed,

so duped and so misinformed.

So American.