I can’t really write about the Middle East every week, can I? And I’m already sick of the election and we’re still over a month from game time. So, it’s poetry week again!
In Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which might as well be my favorite book with the amount that I think about it, the Vogons come to destroy Earth to make way for an intergalactic highway. I’m not spoiling anything, it’s the first few pages of the book.
The Vogons are an awful, cruel race of space creature. They’re the bureaucrats of the galactic government. Makes sense, no?
The Vogons are said to have the third worst poetry in the universe, and they routinely use it as torture for any poor soul that has the misfortune to hear it.
That’s kind of how I feel when I publish a poem.
21st Century Paranoiac Bumpkin Blues I when the bomb drops we'll be on our phones frozen in time backlit by the shadows of our homes what's your opinion of the end times? let me watch 1000 react videos and I'll tell you mine Egypt built pyramids Russians gave us literature the Greeks thought of philosophy and we just got our food delivered when I was told about the future I didn't think it would land on a five inch mirror in the palm of my hand the gene pool's drying up no one to share your bed when IRL is such a bore and all the apps are dead II take me to the feelies take me out for the night oh - the colors, the sounds, the sphere! what time was the fight? a YouTuber builds wells in Africa and pays for the blind to see well, isn't that a mitzvah? or is content never a good deed? 'I spent six years in poverty!' an instant hit on the algorithm parade coincidentally, it's also how the buddha was made 'Everything I eat in a day' is a much shorter clip from a Brazilian favela than the LA vulture with a yorkie on her hip Babylon reconstructed religion 2.0 the service is terrible but at least there's a show! III betting on an afterlife with a 5000 legged parlay yeah, you've seen the face of god but have you seen it in 4k? when David slayed Goliath did he know it was a sign of his whiteness? down with the sun, down with the moon and down with their likeness! it takes a billion dollars to be president a fraction of that for some time on your screen and an undisclosed amount for a quiet place to think I got a double-reverse-balloon mortgage and an interest rate that looks like violence but the lady at the bank told me I didn't have credit for a moment of silence ancient battles on wikipedia pages state the details like it's not up for debate the flattening of history on one all-you-can-eat plate IV scrolling the socials is cleaner than the books on the shelves plus it's not as if the walls of Jericho will double-tap themselves ain't it wonderful? being surrounded by all your friends ain't it grand? how you never have to feel alone ain't it clever how you can travel the world without ever leaving your home 'isn't it funny we're in total control but have no idea what it means that we made the world in the image of ourselves?' said the people with the lowest self-esteem
To a better next week,
Cheers,
~FDA
Really Good😀, I think emoji’s needed representation.