Simple devices
Erode
Democracy
TV listening to me
Complete infiltration has succeeded
Gadgets
Handle surveillance chores
No need to kick down front door
Privacy
Does not exist anymore
Category: Society
271
Choices
Choices
Choices
What should I do?
Choppy sea
Tourists gone home
Beach all for me
Everyday
I sit under the sun
Drinking
Agua de coco
With Jamaican dark rum
Should I go back and keep marching in the parade?
Play the charade
Or take U-turn
Toss
The instruction manual
On the fire
And
Watch it burn
267
Overripe fruit
Falls from the tree
Rats feed ferociously
Zombies
Spinning
Round and round on the roulette wheel
Blinded
By outrageous promises
That barely provides a subpar meal
Bow down
To the new phantom kings
Worship
Like pawns on a string
266
Vacuum sucking up brain cells
Artificial intelligence
Taking society into the bowels of hell
Creepy and crawling
Along the path to oblivion
The technology masters’
Goal
Is to make everyone reptilian
262
Sitting
At the 5 star hotel bar
You begin dealing me cards
I would not feed your offers to my hogs
Nothing left to discuss
Your limo is waiting outside
I will go home on the bus
240
Shattered eye glasses
Nothing makes sense anymore
Ice thawing
Below my feet
Trying to keep alive heartbeat
You offer me a weathered map
We both know
It is a trap
Speak louder
I’m having trouble hearing
You say I should follow society’s rules
What for?
All I find is locked doors
190
Megacities
Massive migration
Urban population eruption
Left village for more prosperous life
Husband-children-wife
Continuous flow comes in
Culture thrown into rubbish bin
Live in a slum
Pollution chokes lungs
Crime rapidly controlling everyone
What will be impact on civilization?
186
Left behind
Never before took to crime
Unemployed
The young man
Walked down the steps of the favela
Pulled out a sharp blade
Decision made
First time hardest
Life forever tarnished
Society pays price
Living in fear is the sacrifice
185
News media boils pot of soup
Ultra-liberal professors brainwash youth
Think tanks bought and sold
Regurgitating propaganda
Doing as told
Powerful control the messengers
With titles and promises of gold
Pay billions for a startup
Although employees do not make enough
For food, shelter, clothes
Divide the nation
Population full of hate and frustration
Elites continue rapid castration
Forced starvation
Pound peasants into the ground
When everything is taken
Board private jet and leave town
171
Damn right
I’m a cynical chap
Suffered my share
Of mishaps
Today’s world
in a severe undertow
Nothing is sacred
So much hatred
Perverted terrorists
Have wet dreams
Of blowing planet
To smithereens
Central Banks’ books are cooked
Masters of finance crooks
Ponzi schemes left and right
Living expenses out of sight
Leaders are clowns
Running countries into the ground
Dump Hazardous waste everywhere
Companies do not care
I need fresh air
Is the food safe to eat?
Growth hormones
Steroids
In the meat
Clean water hard to find
Global warming will destroy life on earth over time
167
Privileged
Less privileged
Social climbers
Boomerang slackers
Believe in the good book
Or burn in hell
Pray five times a day
Study Quran
Or an infidel
Sprinkle ancient dust here and there
Until on their deathbed
Atheists do not seem to care
Who is right?
Who is wrong?
Respect each other’s beliefs
Start getting along
Before humankind is gone
166
Hold on a second
I will open wide
So you can shove it down my throat
Artificial intelligence
Tossing the human race
Down a catastrophic slippery slope
You high tech freaks
Crave to wire everything on the Globe
Creating software and machines
Without hearts
Futuristic
Armies of Robots
Totally state of the art
Seizing power
All societies will fall
Because geeks
Will no longer
Have the intellectual capacity
To halt
The contraptions
From controlling us all
159
Eight years
In the can
No longer same man
Paroled
Desperately
Trying to secure foothold
Mops 1000’s of square feet every night
Grinding
On decaying bones
Inside his mind
Alone
Out of everyone’s sight
140
Sorry
I’m very confused
You say that all the shapeshifters escaped from the zoos
Nothing about this on the news
How do you know this to be true?
What
You are one of them too
119
Tried to play the game
System rigged to keep all in chains
When symphony stops
I see just crushed toy blocks
Dreams submerged in swamp to rot
74
Today’s tourists
Travelling all over globe
Check off bucket list
To show who is the coolest
While poor struggle to exist
58
Chip away extras
Wanting more more only festers
Toys are our masters
55
Shackled by ego
Possessed by hollow treasures
Mankind rots away
44
Walking down alley
The man looks up to the moon
Screaming
We are fools
41
The human vultures
Violently feast on carcass
While drinking fine wine
23
Amazon Brazil
Nativos Brazileiros
Swept from their homeland
17
Crossing the border
Seeking American dream
She found bitterness
12
When doing battle
Block out all potential loss
Then mind will be clear
The Hermit Poet's Ramblings 