Sonnet: It's the Knowledge, Stupid
by John Kendall Hawkins
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Those gripped by ressentiment are no longer able to create. They can only destroy. They gleefully ignite their own funeral pyre.
- Chris Hedges, American Sadism
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Verily, take my word, when I say they're coming
for your Meta timeline, and commentary tours
of blogs and sites, posts of others lost in the mores --
some held down by werewolves for a deep bumming --
dissidents and their screams of dissonance that flit
like hell bats in candle-lit dungeons of the mind,
shadows back and forth, Poe's pit blade, the double-bind
of ex-Gitmo ghouls on gigs, eyeball-deep in sh*t.
Chris Hedges calls it the age of human sadism,
the oxymoronic struggle on the tightwire,
inching from the beasts we were, their howling night choir
snapping at feet, mocking our �"ber dogmatism.
Well, the Big Guy warned us, Stay away from that fruit,
but was plumb mum on the tempter in the zoot suit.
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