In an age of maximum disruption,
Ideological corruption,
In this state of uncertain thoughts,
Chaos sought, destruction wrought.
In a period of maximum uncertainty,
Searching externally.
In this nightmare of mystery,
Scouring history,
American violence,
As American as cherry pie.
American exception/Undisguised deception
Fatuous Fantasyland/Grabbing it while they can
Plutocratic embolism/Filling up American prisons
Financial fears/Unfettered tears
In this time of storytelling,
Uncertainty repelling,
Camus called it Sisyphus,
Marx called it capitalist surplus.
The mystery of history, for those that are excluded.
Forsaken landscapes filled with blood,
stories stripped and looted.
Pin-wheeling from place to place,
looking for meaningful space.
Official announcements so profane,
pronouncements tendered in the autocrat’s name.