Wednesday, May 26, 2021

maybe i'm not well read

or i'm looking in the wrong places
but where is our camus
our new generational someone
standing against the cryptocurrency suits & military brass
with nothing but naked intellect
methodically exposing false prophet politicians
their executioner noose platforms & pipelines
     call it carbon blinding if you want
but the blood is real
awash in every river
'til you reach a dustbowl

camus knew the underground
his blood the ink on the paper
blowing up the lies of the third reich
another thousand-year empire delusion
where ghettos and gas chambers intersect
and ashes never go cold

the clear cuts have made way
for the barbed wire borders
concrete & asphalt facsimiles
as far as the eye can see
but then there's camus
here to walk every last hollow
inside a notebook and scribbled truths

--- e b bortz

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