fear and consumption
Share Article We contemplated vast
silent emptiness on 9.11
“No language, no culture,”
Ahmed sang sitting on Sahara dunes
shooting stars played celestial tag
Strange but true elements of fear,
double edged messages, disinformation,
misinformation, bias, lies,
half-truths, whispers, paranoia,
irrational transmissions were issued
by government authorities
in every language on a spinning blue space marble
Human brains overflowed with data
Therapies in triplicate,
were issued to the populace.
Their remote control device was broken,
Too many channels.
Instant replay seared their consciousness
forever and ever and ever down all the daze
We meditated as peaceful people chewed,
swallowed and digested daily distributed
high concentrated dosage of wisdom,
clarity and insight
Distance, health, balance,
harmony, forgiveness, peace of spiriti sanctus
Scholars educated at the finest
universities and institutes of erudite
study started speaking
Latin
telling stories
about the rise and fall of civilizations
Oral stories written before their time
with hieroglyphics and cave pain paintings
Caves were full of survivors
Candles sales were brisk
“A tisket, a tasket, we need a casket,”
sang multi-lingual refugee children
Historians, political scientists,
talk show experts, taxi drivers,
fortune tellers, beauticians and morticians
took calls on their hot line
The number of callers increased exponentially
Suicide search and rescue teams were put on alert
Citizens packed hospital emergency rooms,
Medical schools increased graduation classes
to meet growing manufactured need as
demand outstripped the supply of fear and consumption
“What happens when they run
out of (in)security control programs?”
a child asked their mother
She was the mother of all answers