I'm too beaten down to care

I watch the mutual murders


the hectoring justifications

the idiocies of pride


the pure evil

of smug self-regard


that pass for the affairs

of the hopeless irredeemable world


...and laugh my ass off...

I've found my sense of humor again


the whole pitiful comedy

plays itself out as the joke it is


now that I am spectator

rather than participant...



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