this house of cards
our reckless lives have built
staring at those phones
forever grasped in sweaty hands
all those daily feckless events
that shape our petty world
everything today happens
beating the bloody band
when extraordinary actually occurs
we inevitably compare
all those crazy things
to some staged movie
that enraged digital film
compared and replayed as groovy
seriously displayed
upon that miniature
my phone screen
we feel betrayed
when taunting
bashing tweets
scream and yell
throughout the digital streets
acting out anonymous
trolls and haunting
raging on a fearsome tear
we're torn and feel forlorn
when social media isn't there
on our celebration days
when we feel
like we are let out
escaping for a moment
or at times
on long weekend engagements
released from our gilded cages
feeling like we are meant
have the utmost right
out in the public street
where people parade
drink and party into the night
kicking ass on that oh so familiar tirade
en masse needy people feel entitled
should selfish greedy intolerance
always make that right
what about our ready political sin
those misguided beliefs
we're so often immersed in
I'm watching that old 1975 movie 'Jaws'
I've been swimming there without pause
reminded by those beach scenes
only white skins are ever seen
besides that cruising grey shark fin
rich and white entitlement
that's what this world has been about
certainly not much has changed
maybe now the world
spins even more deranged
twist and shout
while people of every colour
madly dance about
whether you're president or chief
or just some homeless shmuck
stuck and mired in some drug filled street
money still rules the world
making wealthy ruler's
that top percentile of entitled elite
some think a loaded gun
held in their paranoid hand
wielding a forceful deadly shield
equalizes and makes the martial difference
entertaining a safe and level playing field
where everyone can equally excrete
all their internal rage and pent-up heat
now that July 1st has passed
now that July 4th has come at last
what is there to celebrate
should we celebrate
all these national failures
is there a rational flag
equally created bearing any shape or colour
are there people anywhere
waving about saving peace
save some noble street parade
entreating a truly compassionate feeling
where varied beliefs might even integrate
uniting countries everywhere
but we humans have failed miserably
star struck patriots should look in a mirror
realize they are part of their country's complete failure
so many compromised people are hungry
living in treachery and absolute fear
social failure is a modern reality
if we have eyes to see
those hordes of clenched upraised fists  
wrenching complicated days
entrenched both far and near
so many countries and nations
pathetically fail poor and average citizens
corporate law continually skews
new planetary decisions
the common view is derision
raw soulless business
screws the world over
mirroring demonic denizens
there's this domino effect
screwing the world over
spewing pollution and environmental degradation
not correcting things that demonize
that's not progressive education
not what good-hearted people
can honestly rationalize
no one would ever call correct
colonialism fascism racism
imperialism capitalism communism
these misguided isms erecting
every dangerous house of cards
when hurricanes spell out realistic ism
in real terms of relative humanism
people should wake up
realizing humanity is hard
greatness does not celebrate misguided ism
all those made up countries
made up doctrines people hail
which continue to superlatively fail
celebrating and parading
overcrowded stables
full of unstable and unreal egoism
if there is anything
we should celebrate
it should be stable and capable nature
since so far at least
some of providential nature has survived
beyond our careless reckless
heartless human greed and cataclysm

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