OctaveZero: Bill of Writes – WTP 10

We kill All our Heros – We the People X

We seem to have an unfortunate habit… We kill all our heros
with our praises and adulations. our fears borne by challenged indifference.
We skim off the cream and whip it good and blend it til marginalized and
then with its faux imitative qualities scum rises to the top to fill a void.

The voices of our heros are no longer heard unless You Tube
in that vast ocean of other peoples memories and super8 vids
– kind of like surfing in man-of-war infested waters.
A great wave posthumously paying the cost of a million stinging welts
to tumble us onto pounded sand, ripped and bloody,
where we daub on ourselves our homogenized salve,
our distilled tincture of outrageous hope, cut with catchy tunes of
this weeks cover band:

slight affects include and may cause
loss of critical thought,
sleepless horrors,
regimented acceptance of internments,
neighborly informants,
officiously subsidized dopes
and waste watcher purging.

We hardly listened when we had them, before we killed all our heros,
and then usually to better mock them and ridicule their clothes
or hair and take exception to their nose or
make fun of them as they walked us where we might
see a sunrise bathing us in joyous light.
We called some of them hypocrit as they lived their birthright
and laughed and booed them when they told us
our bread was moldy, our circus was a sham, our cupboard bare.

We killed all our heros and now eagerly await a new crop,
their own crap not yet in evidence lockers, saying
this time is different,
this time it will be done better, on TV as it is in real life.

and we sit nodding heads in time to the soothing sound bites
and pretty power pointed pictures.

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