Day 129 of the 365 day poem challenge.
Word of the day hegemony meaning: "the dominance or leadership of one social group over others."
The Circuit
Jarring cyclone headache
Beating down my soul
Gears grinding of a public service
Broken and rusted and spent
The cogs are laughing and joking
They have demon faces
Filled to the brim of desperation
I saw a fellow and a lady stare in confusion upon the threshold
Of declared but rotten justice
I saw the public lack confidence
I saw nothing change
I saw the moth balls of frenzy and failures collect like head lice
Thrashing hadron-collider
Blast my particles to bits
With inanity and archaism
And lack of judgement and lack of courage and lack of preparation
And overly sodden gears and grinders
And overly geared parts slick with
The oil of youth and inexperience
To be lorded over and
Talked down to
Hopeless spiralling cataclysm
Like a train crash
Whining careening screAming
At the rending of steel
And shattered
Presiding the nepotistic oligarch
Like the gods Saturn and Jupiter ensnaring all the bit players in their rings
Presiding hegemony posing as the rule of law
Presiding arbitrary and capricious
Presiding unformed and unprincipled
Presiding ill formed and grotesque.
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