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We Are Like This

Chris Volkay

We are like this:
Because we try to force our balloony heads
into the strictures of the pre-fabricated masks.

We are like this:
Because we believe in Godot-ey gods and
alien-abductions with equal ardor and justification.

We are like this:
Because genius is the soaring of the painted bird
among the hoards of puffing vultures,
knee-deep in cigarette butts.

We are like this:
Because we mortgage our prime lives away to the
sub-prime illusions of material “success.”

We are like this:
Because youth is wasted on the young; and
life itself on us humans.

We are like this:
Because nobody and no thing has the guts
left to be responsible for anything, anywhere
at anytime.

We are like this:
Because we insist that people are interchangeable,
mere spokes in Marx’s wheel.

We are like this:
Because we elevate and adore celebrity
nothingness as our own precious lives go
avalanching on down the hill.

We are like this:
Because we persist in believing that
everything is part of some grand conspiracy,
instead of random, meaningless, chaos that
all life is.

We are like this:
Because, yes...as Mark Twain said, “Noah,
didn’t miss the boat.”

We are like this:
Because we have separated ourselves from
reality, opting for our own individual
dustclouds of cloistering illusion.

We are like this:
Because we inherited this earthly paradise,
but are only interested in living in ones
that are up in the sky.

We are like this:
Because our problem is loneliness, yet
we deny it, right up to the time the gasoline is
trickling down the tresses of our hair.

We are like this:
Because science itself is hated, as it
might further crack the already cracked
superstitious crackage.

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