lies – Page 2 – poems 2 die for

SPECIES

time travel back
to ancient Athens
they made Socrates
drink hemlock
on the grounds
of corruption
lucky for us

the charge did not stick
we saw
through thst
slander, laughed
at that spin

not that we have
the capacity to do that today
when we revere our leaders
for the lies
that they tell us
buy into the fake narratives
as our matter of
life our death

refuse to believe anything
that is not illogical
and ittational
as testament to the devotion
with which
we contrive our decline

time travel back to Ancient Athens
like an alien planet now
so distant in
space and time

GRAVELY SPOKEN

GRAVELY SPOKEN

the gravity of these lies
as each lie is by the following
monstrously compounded

will drill a hole in the
fabric of
space time

a sewer for truth
where truth will be dragged be crushed

never to be seen again
until our
full self-destruction

OF THE AGE lies live lies survive lies fly all over the place so much destruction in their wake their instinct being to replicate split like mutant cells divide and be careful how you yourself do define for here service to the lie loses the light goes completely blind for shadow has shown too easy it be to mistake the love of a death embrace become the thing we fear we hate the beautiful hypocrite of the age the lie in us so consummate

ULTIMATE ULTIMATION

here they are
you raw meat
paid for
attack dogs

here
at the tribunal
to lay down
the law
ram down
our throats
your ultimate ultimation

not for the truth
not for humanity
but for the lobby, desperate
for survival, desperate
for salvation

shame your
weapon of mass coercion

you should yourselves
be ashamed of

if you had
an ounce of subtlety
of integrity, a gram