how they struggled like salmon to negotiate the currents of trendy
styles
they
quoted richly and freely from various movies and sitcoms
how
they practiced their lines like Shakespearean actors
reciting
advertisements and slang phrases endlessly to each other
how
they fled like the wildebeest when their leaders were startled
stampeding
once and again from gizmo to gadget
how
their consumer assemblages changed like rainbowed chameleons
as
they threw down and picked up in seemingly-chaotic but instinctive
patterns
how
they continually sought the hyperbolized New and Exciting
always
in the context of their blindered and literalist, neo-con xenophobia
how
they raised their little muzzles from their cubicle burrows all alike
sifting
the complex breezes of hyper-consumerism
how
they moved on without concern leaving their droppings behind
rendering
unfit what they no longer wanted
how
they bleated like piglets for sugar, salt and fat
trying
to assuage the emptiness that they mistook for hunger
how
they piddled and side-barred until they lay in their own wastes
passing
away while myopically planning only to rejoin the consumer race
how
they huddled together as media shadows danced on their walls
and
clever adverts crushingly drowned the quiet voice of the earth
how
they saddled themselves with surreal financial burdens
chasing
lame illusions which were bored endlessly, deep into their skulls
how
they lied to themselves and boasted emptily to each other
swimming
in a twisting bait ball, trying not to look either forward or back
how
they shopped too close together for cheap imported goods
bleating
quite foolishly as the good jobs gradually disappeared
how
they wasted with gusto both water and oil
fouling
the air with their driving and poisoning the land to grow food
how
they groveled like fawning dogs for government subsidies
meanwhile
ranting on about personal responsibility and fiscal conservancy
how
they twitched and cried out in their uneasy sleep
not
quite remembering dreams of things they would never dare face
how they struggled to define themselves within the vast herd
and
savagely attacking en masse, those daring to differ
how
they continued denying their place in some squishy balance of nature
blithely
assured by media leaders that more research was needed
how
they quickly grew impatient and bored when the details were gone into
yet
avidly dismissed out of hand scrupulous research as junk science and
fuzzy math
how
they squirmed with discomfort when they glimpsed contradictions to
their faith
diving
back with alacrity into the warm and sustaining illusions of their
media hosts
how
they portrayed each other as intelligent creatures
echoing
pre-digested soundbites back and forth until, finally, each one fell
silent
how
they boasted of their supreme natural moral authority
never
bothering with the lessons their forefathers had left them
how
they condescendingly viewed those fools in the rest of the world
as
they were overtaken in education and human understanding
how
they tripped over each other in individual quests for the same
illusion
searching
for spiritual fulfillment within the noise and dust of the swarm
how
they all clucked in avian tones at each new atrocity
always
convinced that, at last, the bottom must have been reached
how
they reacted without thought, all in the same direction
like
a large school of small fish when a cloud throws a shadow
how
they often festered inside, nursing many small grudges
then
lashing violently out, but still always wanting to be in
how
they fell asleep at the wheel on a road straight and wide
woke
up in horror just upon striking the tree
how
they carefully deluded each other as to the nature of their fate
willfully
ignoring the great empty void to which they all must return
how
they conscientiously wasted each waking hour and avoided all
introspection
then,
far too late with feeble excuses, tried to invent some kind of
accounting
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