dredge up combustible claptrap from volatile social sediment
leach out traces of empathy
amend with doses of dark matter proclivities
concentrate in spin room centrifuges and
launch upon diatribes into mass market airwaves
where heat-seeking simpletons lock in and draw down
the kamikaze means of their own oblivion
and your father’s civic mindedness is the new red-bait communism
for rating-shares reign supreme and
the sensible center does not hold
Ron Diener is a Manufacturing Engineer and writer living near Austin, Texas.
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