Cookie Jar
10/05/17 04:31
Cookie Jar
Revolution is what happens
when democracy is caught
with its hands in the cookie jar
by the people with the recipe
who are left holding the bag of crumbs.
Hanging by self-righteous fingernail fungus,
discharging smug sewage into airwaves,
seeking retroactive circuitous solutions
to perplexing puzzles of futuristic anxiety.
Stifling growth of linear thought process,
slicing schooling, music and art to its knees,
ripping at the foundation of scientific truth,
demanding the lockstep of anecdotal thought.
Demeaning the clarity of reason in treason,
diminishing the true nature of humanity,
creating the colored scapegoats of freedom,
scaring the hell out of sanctimonious sanity.
Raping logical belief systems,
supplanting truisms with incendiary cinders,
dismantling emotion piece by pompous piece,
in primeval progression from light to dark.
Revolution is what happens
when its leaders are caught
with their hands in the cookie jar
by the people with the recipe
who are left holding the bag of crumbs.
Dennis Wayne Bressack
Woodstock, New York
March 12, 2017
Revolution is what happens
when democracy is caught
with its hands in the cookie jar
by the people with the recipe
who are left holding the bag of crumbs.
Hanging by self-righteous fingernail fungus,
discharging smug sewage into airwaves,
seeking retroactive circuitous solutions
to perplexing puzzles of futuristic anxiety.
Stifling growth of linear thought process,
slicing schooling, music and art to its knees,
ripping at the foundation of scientific truth,
demanding the lockstep of anecdotal thought.
Demeaning the clarity of reason in treason,
diminishing the true nature of humanity,
creating the colored scapegoats of freedom,
scaring the hell out of sanctimonious sanity.
Raping logical belief systems,
supplanting truisms with incendiary cinders,
dismantling emotion piece by pompous piece,
in primeval progression from light to dark.
Revolution is what happens
when its leaders are caught
with their hands in the cookie jar
by the people with the recipe
who are left holding the bag of crumbs.
Dennis Wayne Bressack
Woodstock, New York
March 12, 2017