A Modern Dylanian Tale Kyle’s in mom’s basementShining up his armamentPretti’s on the pavementFacing down the governmentThe men in the jackbootsFace cloaked, safety offTryin’ not to look softJust another jerk offLook out dudeWatch the attitudeYou’re filming us againBetter check your civil libertiesTryin’ to save a new friendThe man in the black ICE hatDid it againWantsContinue reading “Subjective Doomscrolling News”
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Survey Says
A meditation on spectacle—how modern entertainment reframes suffering as competition, humiliation as content, and moral distance as victory. From primetime sports to reality television, the poem interrogates the quiet bargain we make as viewers: validation purchased at the expense of someone else’s disgrace. What begins as observation ends as implication, leaving the audience to sit with an uncomfortable truth—the show only works because we keep showing up.
The Theater: An Allegory Up In Smoke
What starts as a single match strike grows into a conflagration of defiance, indulgence and decay. This is the smoke-filled theater we are choking in today.
Mannino Acid 