Curb my hatred of the proud and scornful ignorance that
loudly proclaims our superiority
Stifle my loathing of greasy car salesmen, lying real estate
agents and one-track CEOs
Help cap off my intense disgust with monomaniac self-proclaimed
Masters of the Universe
Shame on my anger at the purposeless noise from which we
derive so much simple pleasure
Help me not to hate pale political compromise, as satisfying
to all sides as cold oatmeal
Stop me from wasting energy railing against the corrupt
nature of organized religions
End my bitter diatribes over the rapid and unconscious waste
of all of our non-renewables
Let me blissfully ignore the brutal, post-modern efficiency
of our food animal holocaust
Grant me relief from my wasted worry over the absolute
non-issue of human overpopulation
Control my wish to club those falsely cloaking themselves in
so-called Traditional Family ValuesÔ
Halt my useless ranting upon the utter unsustainability of
our vapid consumerism
Help me overcome the overwhelming feeling that, this time,
the sky really must be falling
Make me just ignore their canned and dumbed-down homilies
read with smarmy & self-assured smirks
Enable me to silently accept an ever-filthier and even more
degraded natural world, every day
Reduce my revulsion over the grant of divine souls only to
us by the musty gods we alone invented
Deliver me from my pointless and weak concern over our
agricultural soil microbe communities
Stay my hand from smiting the lawyers, accountants, insurers
and financiers
Help me not hate the unquestioned spending of more every
year on our so-called dEfense
Don’t let me attack our wise but pale corporate masters safe
inside their locked compounds
Staunch my concern over such inconsequentialities as
breathable air and potable water
Deaden me to the grating noise of their witlessly
destructive gas-powered ‘wreckreation’
Stop me noticing as one beautiful and perfectly adapted
species after another just disappears
Keep my mind from dwelling on blackmailed bailouts doled out
to banks with no strings attached
Lower my unrealistic expectations regarding our own morality
and intelligence
Aid me in not dwelling too long upon the microscopic
insignificance of my own tiny voice
Help me not to hate the self-promoters who have to grab the
microphone in front of the cameras
Show me I should not look down upon the ordinary sloth,
ignorance and obese over-consumption
Quell the anger that arises when I hear the foreign tongues,
quite at home in my own land
Let me not even bother to scorn the venal, profit-seeking of
the entertainment or tourist industries
Save me from drowning in a rank skepticism fueled daily by
all of those so very sordid current affairs
Quiet my rude sarcasm over our hi-def worship of hulking
sports illiterates in skin tight pants
Quench my disgust with their never-ending Quick and dirty
and the permanent Just for now
Stop me shouting over the stirring faux-patriotic music of
their euphemistic sound bite hyperbole
End my squishy concern over all the things that are
destroyed daily, without even being noticed
Halt my cynicism as their reasoned debates degrade into
loud, twisted exaggeration and blatant lies
Help me not to hate myself so much for being so inextricably dependent on all these
ugly things
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