Seeing Red

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Who knew you’d no longer need rose colored lenses to look at the world in a pink hue.
That all our smoke and mirrors could blot out the sun too.
The mask you wear (slowly) becomes you,
Masking the truth in hopes that manifest destiny comes through
Before the planetary rent’s due
But who could pay the price tag?
Not the ones actually paying the price
It's the ones who’ve paid a pretty penny to never have to pay the price
We pay the pied piper for pipelines across tribe lines
But of course the price varies on state lines
Our president, who only sees red, is four times less likely to send funds to blue states
Literally letting the left burn
But all states right now are burning red
And all of us are feeling blue
And if your house burns, don’t expect a good hand from AllState
Because insurance is busy figuring out how to ditch you.
I water my plants with ditched water
As an apology
As a condolence
“Hold on” I tell them. “This will all be over soon.”
Would they thank me for meager drops if opening their lungs didn’t cause them to choke on the smoke?
Or condemn me?
No mask for mother nature
And the poisoned well they drink from is tinged with the taste of cooled silicon
Cool! Silicon!
Let’s see if the circuits can cut a clear trace between the components of this cosmic clusterfuck
Or if they come up short
Circuits. It’s all circuits now
It’s all circuitous
We’ve been here time and time again
Time clock   ticking
Is it me or is it faster now?
A quickening
Mind Race
Response?
Mind erase
My AI does the thinking now
Context collapse
A lapse in judgment
I feel like the world is passing judgment and the verdict is guilty
I read it in the tea leaves
I spill the tea into an empty stream but
Is anybody listening?
These days you’re either covering your ears or shouting
Main character energy, or NPC
What’s it gonna be?