Poem: Dogpaddlers

 

 

Dogpaddlers

 

dogpaddlers in a sea of cellphones,

dollar bills as eager as mosquitoes,

 

what a vulnerable underbelly,

this braggart confidence,

 

how we chain the short term gain

to the long term zero

with the interest rate of souls;

 

how we push the illlusion so fast

over an abyss of compulsions,

below the brainstorm of our complicity.

 

a fatalism so toothy, 

so cruel and voracious,

it lurks inconceivable.

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