STATUS REPORT, 2018 CE
Status Report, 2018 CE
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A whole World corrupt
and rotten.
Rotten to it’s very core
and every Institution is a Lie.
Only Two Laws;
One for Them.
One for You.
Nothing new.
Another day, another Atrocity.
Public Relations sends an Operative to explain
and soon another Robot
with perfect teeth
and a botox smile
is mouthing incomprehensible Jargonese
upon the screen.
(This secret language known
only to bureaucrats, politicians
and the occasional media mouthpiece
is believed to act as a tourniquet
on the cerebral cortex.)
A pressure group of Proles demands
an App that dumbs it down enough
for them to understand,
and unlimited bandwidth.
Meanwhile, latest market research indicates
the target audience feels no pain,
it’s too heavily medicated or drunk.
Instead it wallows like a cranky baby
in self indulgence and sour discontent,
moods swinging wildly
between schaden freude
and self pity.
It knows the World is dying
but pretends not to notice.
As one respondent noted;
“You could care
but that takes effort.
Easier to lie back
and wallow in your own excrement.“`
“Ah, where will it all end?”,
a colleague sighed. I
didn’t know, so I asked Google.
But the Internet wasn’t certain either,
so it just gave me a list
of predicted Apocalypses
and told me to pick one I liked.
Nibiru was a bit of a no show,
but don’t fret, it might just be running late
and the Messiah Foundation International
assures me an asteroid will collide
with the earth, sometime in 2020.
Isaac Newton predicted 2060,
though later reworked his calculations
to come up with 2018.
Asteroids and Jesus are the two most popular
scenarios, and if the heat death of the Universe
is too far away for you, (10duotrigintillion CE)
a big burst of Gamma Radiation
from WR104 should thoroughly autoclave the planet
sometime in the next 300,000 years.
I passed the results of my research
onto my colleague
but I haven’t heard back from them Yet.
I’m not sure if that’s a good sign
or not.
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The Reverend Hellfire is a practised Performance Poet,
President of the Kurilpa Institute of Creativity Inc.,
and an Ordained Minister of the Church of Spiritual Humanism
AND the Church of the Universe.
Try.
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