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Everything’s Fine

He Drove his Duesenburg into the garden shed.
And on the radio, commander Campbell said:

“Now is the time and we shall not taler. If there’s been a crime,
then we know the culprit.”

But these immortal words, he never heard them said.
"Keep you hands in view, get down and watch your head.”

We tell you how to think.
We tell you what’s a sin.
We fold up all the logic
and dole it out again.

We split up all the atoms.
We pull out every rug.
We connect colored wires
and give your ear a tug.

We transmit subtle patterns.
Project them behind your face.
We test without permission.
We keep you in your place.

We send it through the airwaves.
We volunteer your voice.
We preclude indecision
so that you have no choice.

All in all, everything’s fine.
But what you gonna do when the crawl inside your mind?

A single rose petal landed across his cheek.
He felt the lightning strike;
Didn’t move for half a week.

He sleeps in broken houses.
He burps and moans the words.
He speaks in partial context,
hoping they never heard.

This is no fairyland.
This is no late show flick.
He's not a windowpane.
he's not a lunatic.

(Please don’t dissolve me.)

We tell you when to work.
We tell you when to quit.
We don’t explain a thing.
You’re part of our exhibit.

We tell tell you where to go.
We tell you what to do.
We decide when you die.
We know what’s best for you.

We feed you fertilizer.
We scream inside your ear.
We are the scrutinizers.
We tell you what to fear.

We Portion out your senses.
We poke you with a stick
We lower your defenses
We watch you ration it.

All and all, every things fine.
But what you gonna do when they put you in that line?

(Please don’t dissolve me.)

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from Beat Fever Dreamers of Despair (NaSoAlMo 2015), released December 1, 2015

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Tim King / Axolotl Daydream Salem, Oregon

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