Versus
by Korvus Korax / April 24th, 2022
In spite of what the mighty
goodthink-streaming discord-seeding
Misdirection Machine ceaselessly spouts
the things it deems our struggles to be
aren't by any means what they're about.
They're not about black vs white left vs right
or anything so gaslight radiatingly fake.
What they're about
is us vs Them the point-oh-one percent
— about us ever getting a close-to-fair shake.
It's hardly a wonder then that largely artificial
attention-shepherding populace-splintering
diversionary wars are continuously waged
by the money-power's officer knaves
and armies of witless useful-idiot bots;
are continuously staged to divide and distract
the unwary grunts from the smouldering fact
that a class war is what should be fought.
Despite being rigorously drilled to suppose
that nothing matters so much as combating
the steady succession of designated foes
— foes our programmers make nakedly clear
it's our duty to loathe and fervently fear —
what the ground truth boils down to is proof
that the battle that matters is right vs wrong
not the ruse of illusions such as right vs left;
that the conflicts that count
are goodness and light vs darkness and evil
deceit vs truth and tyranny's threats
against unalloyed joy and god-given freedom.
It's not about which puppeteered party we back
about white brown or black this creed or that
or even alphabet-gendered women and men.
It's all about top vs bottom
and good against bad; it's all about us vs Them.
Unwaveringly true to the fools
the fates have us play in this life
sadly we slice and dice ourselves into tribes
at the stealth behest of our rulers;
into tribes shrewdly maneuvered
by the-powers-that-be to prevent
we-the-plebs from uniting and fighting
the possessed point-oh-one percent.
From his lofty perch near the top of the earth, Korvus observes the whirling world of humans, with equal parts wonder, disgust, and amusement. Korvus is the author of the unpublished book "RED PILL POEMS: The Poetry of Empire, Politics and Power" and may be reached at
ravenzroost@protonmail.com Read other articles by Korvus.
This article was posted on Sunday, April 24th, 2022 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.