We reached the tipping point
when male pattern baldness
and erectile dysfunction
became more important
than curing cancer
or infant mortality.
When all the television shows
about poor people
in situation dramedies
were replaced by “reality” programs
about the hard lives
of people born or married
to wealth and power.
We’re obviously not a culture
that values wisdom:
our elderly are packed off
to nursing homes
or left to dodder around
the halls of congress
with their mighty hard-ons
and full heads of hair.
No one’s passing on their knowledge,
hoping their children
or children’s children
will learn how to run the world
better.
We use our money
to build prisons and graveyards,
then refuse to throw
the folks who belong there
into these investments.
We practicing not letting go:
keeping up with the Joneses
dying with the most toys
while the rest of the world
starves to death.
15 MAY 2025