News

News (first draft written on 8/30/23)

Apparently, we are still evolving. This is what the news anchors tell me
but I know you can't trust them. Our genetics need to become superior

and robotics and microchips and nanotechnology and artificial intelligence

hold the answer to the question we're all asking, they tell me-

How will we survive? 

When I read the Bible I see people living for hundreds of years

but maybe the Bible writers were dumb or couldn't count

or maybe they were lying. The television would never lie to me

or text books or Wikipedia or Fox or CNN or MSNBC or NPR.

When I see the glowing, flickering screen it's a kind of magic

and a spell entrances me and I see the moving lips

and the pictures swirling around and I take it all in to my body

and it goes into my muscles and I digest it and it leeches

into my mind and my eyeballs project a different hue.

When I say the word psyop it doesn't resonate with me

there are already too many apes and wars and wildfires 

and planets and athletes and diseases and globes and astronauts 

clamoring around in my body; it's so crowded it makes me tired.

So I sleep and let everyone else worry about how we are going to survive.

I'm going to take a nap and read the news to help me sleep.