The Millstone

of 'being a success'  
is there for any and all 
who seek to grind others down with it,
as wealth and fame makes them
perpetuate false selves so successful
the genuine self is nowhere to be found.

Nowhere is this truer
than in modern popular song,
where if the artist is young, female,
and is the image of 'marketable',
such that they are modern barbie dolls
with musical talent added via technology,
performing songs to be heard in supermarkets
where the sound can be ignored by discerning shoppers. 

What Comes After The Sixth Extinction?

Hypocrisy is a virus, and human beings
are it's most successful host/carrier.
We like to think we are intelligent,
but any host would do just fine.
Hypocrisy's gift to us
is an apparent immunity
from the extinctions of other species
that the virus causes via divorcing
our actions and words from our thoughts.
The sense of gain seems twice over
-the extinctions of other species
extends our lives, which makes it seem
our survival an easy flattery to swallow.
But the point will come
when we comes unstuck,
when we collectively realize
that there is not enough
clean and working planet
left for us to live on, or through.
What will the virus do to us then?
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