Collective Societal Insanity!

Collective Societal Insanity!

A Poem by Michael Stevens
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Don't listen to his siren's call!

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What is it, something in the water, much like fluoride,

that blinds some of us from seeing the truth?


By seriously supporting a clown, with a straight face?

Only this additive does far worse than strengthening a tooth,



no, this must cause a sort of collective societal insanity.

How else to describe a mass leave-taking of our senses?


By supporting such a crude man, who spouts hate

and intolerance, who doesn't want to mend fences,


he wants to build them up, until they're a towering wall

that divides us and them, a soul-crushing permanent fear


that will make us eye our neighbor with suspicion,

a return to the cold war, when we all thought the end was near?


If your friend jumps off a cliff, does that mean you have to follow suit?

Cause we are, apparently, we're driving nails into our own coffin,


unless we snap out of the media-driven trance, and get back from the edge.

We're following the Pied Piper of Stupidity, we can't let him win!


© 2016 Michael Stevens


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Added on September 11, 2016
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Michael Stevens
Michael Stevens

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I write for fun; I write comedy pieces and some dramatic stuff. I have no formal writing education, and I have a fear of being told I suck, and maybe I should give up on writing, and get a job makin.. more..