Truth is fabricated
Equality is a game of chance
Fear is seeded by what might be forfeit
Prosperity is measured by debt
Freedom is constrained by obedience
Healthcare is dispensed by demographics
Welfare is torture by informatics
Poverty is a collateral statistic
Hunger is nourished by greed
Homelessness is a gross domestic product
Morality is fashioned by celebrity
Aspiration is forged in mediocrity
Education is weaponised by ideology
Sexuality is a transactional affair
Vengeance is wrought in expectation of love
The Earth is suffocating . . .

Hallelujah! to our survival
when all that remains is the impulse to exist.

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Pictures: Tattoo-faced women of Myanmar, Lai Tu Chin culture

© Rod McRiven 2023