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The Web Poetry Corner - Chris Lahren - Darwin's Vonnegut and the Minneapolis AGT Protests

Darwin's Vonnegut and the Minneapolis AGT Protests

by

Chris Lahren

Boring and useless burns on the inside of the skull. You fuse cathode-rays to your brain and zap reality away like the language that's lost forever...

forever, such and insane word. Perhaps overused and deeply wrong because it implies an expanse of time that we'll never fully realize.

and how come evolution produced giraffes and zebras while humans were never born with an instinct to survive?

and in the meantime we multipy exponentially while rapidly devising new and elaborate schemes to die.

and at the same time, most of us sit planted like lobsters in the sun, playing cards in Vegas, oblivious to the fact that China stole our secrets of self destruction at a Clinton poker party. Yet we're more concerned about other affairs and the stain left in the oval office.

and the animal rights activists with their psuedo-dreadlocked rasta hair donned in new-age hippie wear, contrived and desperate for another Vietnam. and they lose respect for human lives and dignity while they fight for the souls of bottom feeding mud-fish and cats.

after they've been kicked and beaten by night sticks and gassed, they return to their Volkswagon Jettas to seek out a new revolution.

I like the rich college bums that suck the wealth from ma and pa, suck the puff from the bong, dress themselves like impoverished charity cases and pretend to raise awareness from some lost trees in California, while simultaneously saving a simulated Playstation world from the evil grip of blood frenzied zombies.

In the background plays a Marley tune, chanting about togetherness while the only thing stuck together are his pages of a magazine.

Sometimes I wonder, in today's world, if you have the means to fund a college education at a reputable institution of higher learning, do you really need that degree in the first place?

I like how the gifted and privileged are more eager to profess that the greatness of this country depends upon the struggle and will to overcome adversity.

Remember,

this is the land of opportunity!

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