This Machine

the children sit before the screen

as do the overgrown children

this is the new form of worship,

now the norm really four decades on

and the ones that carry the flag

that's the color of absence and

rainbow are battling over the

intellectual superiority rights

on the battleground

called the interwebs

and that's the irony right there,

professional key-strokers

demeaning the structure of

the fascist classroom and

its technological lackeys

while they themselves demean

others for being less-educated

than they are all while having been

educated in those same classrooms

arguments for or against 

are not dictations unless those 

dictations came from power positions

logic is a tool, not dogma

the population always votes,

therefore that fallacy is dismissed

and the small population of 

interweb warriors are written 

off as lost children,

intellectually incapable of

accepting reality even though

they themselves might function

productively in it

yet they themselves are under no edict

to change their ways as the voters are

under no edict to vote for any ideology

other than the ones they prefer

are the children really diminished intellectually

or are they just products of biology and environment,

tradition and stability?

does it matter since the rock we live on has been

smashed by meteors and rocked by earthquakes

before now?

the better way is the status quo and

that will be gone in the next century

this machine shall pass away as

the machines of today will wind up

on the Cantonese trash heap of tomorrow,

and as the machines called us become

the worm food and fertilizer of tomorrow

until then, the fascist classroom and

the lost children shall remain