Kudzu

Working on the sabbath
but not the sabbath in this
country, since most people
don't respect that anyway,
because the toxicity of
secularism has run
rampant for over a
century now, at least
in the fundamentalist
minds that believe that fear
in the supernatural, the fear
of the invisible, is the best
possible life that every
human being could live
on this pale blue dot,
this idea worms it way
into the ground and around
the other plants like kudzu,
strangling them, stealing the
communist sunlight like the
corrupt venture capitalists
that they are, because plants
can't speculate on sunlight
like humans shouldn't speculate
on oil, and so he toils away,
tearing out the wormy grassroots,
the thistle taproots, and the
rogue trees seedling s that make
the flower bed look like a scene
from the show Life After People,
he becomes a half of a
conservative wet dream,
a libertarian's libertarian in
a libertarian fantasy,
imagining that his flower bed
is the fertile ground ready
for the corruption that is
rampant government spending,
and once the seeds are planted,
they become the kudzu of the
flower bed and they burn Atlanta
to the ground when the lightning
strikes after the cycle of drought
that is part of the Earthen routine
thus acting out another scene
from the show Life After People,
and by then, the concepts of sabbath
and rampant government spending
and conservatism and libertarianism
will have become truly useless
since humankind will have
finished the countdown
to extinction but the kudzu
and all the other arboreal
bullshit will remain.

Reviews

[NightShade]

This is strikingly good! The bitter metaphors delve deep, giving a clear insight into the State of things (I almost said state of the Union... Oops, I just did). Brilliant!

[Brad]

i wish you could have been in my lutheran theology class! we could have given that professor a run for his money

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

Life after People, is there life after people, mentally in this case, I think you open questions that reveal in the mist of thought, well done