Do you really ignore their careless toxic dust way up your
nose and far down your lungs
Are you good with harshly ignorant laborers throwing up
cheap shit all in your face
Is their flimsy pre-fab on flattened and devastated earth a
relief to your tired eyes
Does that smoggy orange haze that you drive through soften
your haunted outlook
Do you really fulfill your spirit from some musty old book
supposedly written by a god
Can you actually enjoy that giant, poorly-engineered,
way-overpriced gas guzzler
Do you think the lame media in which you immerse yourself
helps you to grope your way thru
Are you still so sure you won’t live long enough to need any
Medicare or Social Security
Do you really think energy efficiency spells the end of what
you mistake for comfort
Do you perhaps take a vicarious pride in our cowboy
diplomacy and wars of liberation
Are you gathering cosmic truth in your cycle of meaningless
work and mindless recreation
Has living for today and grabbing all that you can not even
worn you just a little bit thin
Does it grow difficult to lose yourself in prescribed meds,
alcohol, religion or media rapture
Can you truly believe that our blind and greedy rush can
continue even another 100 years
Have you actually considered the size and permanence of your
stumbling daily footprint
Did you ever answer if you’re better off in today’s version
of Morning In America
Do you really think if you just keep the family safe and
happy everything will simply work out OK
Does the blasting noise of all the cars and harleys and
trucks somehow blend to soothe you
Can you find safe and quiet refuge in the crumbling home
that’s worth less than you owe
Is yours a parallel worklife with the next piece of veal in
one more prairie dog cubicle farm
Do you really think that polarized 2 party gridlock
inevitably gropes us forward
Must you judge all your actions with regard to convenience
and time savings
Are you ok with those who fed chalky poison to babies
helping provide food for your children
Do you really feel that things will just work out and we’ll
muddle through like always
Do you really think it’s progress to channelize the rivers
and fill in all the wetlands
Are you maybe only accelerating blindly toward some as yet
unspecified objectives
Will you really reflect back in satisfied wisdom as you are
fed and excrete thru medical tubes
Does their sporadic and uncontrolled noise really not rattle
your uninsured teeth
Do you really not notice the billion wasteful and paranoid
lights blotting out all the stars
Is adjusting the thermostat to your comfort really your only
solution to climate change
Have you truly found peace of mind in a round of golf or an
expensive pedicure
Do you not weary of making this or that hole a little bit
bigger while moving it elsewhere
Do you really ignore the endless tolling of extinction,
heat, drought and pollution
Aren’t you often looking forward for weeks to vacations that
you do not even remember later
Can you actually believe that unencumbered greed is, in
reality, sacred enlightened self-interest
Do
you really sleep soundly thru the night, wake up refreshed - just to do it all
once again
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