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Don’t want to be reading

The dreadlines again

Or seeing

The pleading,

Bereaving

Condemned

To eternal,

Infernal,

Infirmities

Sick

Of the different day,

Different plague,

Be afraid

Shtick

So we pick and choose

Truth

More appealing

And safe

And we make it replace

What no scapegoat escapes

From the burden of knowing

“So much on your plate”

To the taste

Is addicting,

Afflicting the state

Of the outdated status

Updating-site

Fake

News in its earth-raping,

System

Victim-blaming,

Disastrous forsaking

Of tensions enflaming

Then breaks with reality

Leaving you waking

Up to

Shaken up,

So it’s back to the stirring

Of hurrying cups

Of productive

Consumption

Of never enough

Pics of food

On the feed

In its virulent greed

As it propagates,

Promulgates

Seeds of deceit

And like vermin

It breeds

A posterity ceding

More user agrees

For the free-raider

Data invader’s 5G’s

So to spy with our eyes

What they hide

As we stream

Along indolently

In naive

Fever dreams

Interweaving

All that we perceive

To confines of a screen

Never blind to the scene

Yet immune to the screams

As we still hope and pray

To evade

The disease