DANGER

As more and more,
look out,
for our safety,
danger struts around,
without reason to lurk.

Welcomed with open warms,
soundtracked by car alarms,
and cell phone ring tones,
all beeping out the national anthem,
and a bell choir of ringing cash registers.

Thank you cards read:
We appreciate the thought,
for our well-being,
but we already have plenty to fear.

Must we,
be fruitful and multiply anxieties,
exponentially.

Is the purple pill right for us,
just be damn sure we hope it is.

Something must cure this.

We'll do whatever it takes,
we'll lock up our neighbors
and kill each other,
if that's what it costs to be alive, but...

We never wanted to be safe,
we simply wanted to live
unihibited by such harms,
but rather take for granted,
those who may ill wish us,
knowing we made every effort,
to establish trust.

We are united,
in our contempt for these burdens,
but continue to be guided,
by a lack of,
a lack of honesty,
in the true merit,
of this unity.
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found one !. i really must get better at catching up.

danger struts around,
without reason to lurk


this just stings me (in a good way). our modern world is so transparently ugly and unkind.

loved this as always.

vanessa/mig XX