The New Superstition

Written
2006

 There is, I hear, a plot to kill us off.

The Mad Scientists and the Religious Right Wing

        of the Republican Party

(or is it the Atheistic Left Wing of the Democratic Party)

      have joined forces and declared war on us.

They have poisoned our water,

       Contaminated the air we breathe,

       and made our food a chemical time bomb.

Electric currents and radio waves from

       our microwaves, high voltage lines

       and computer screen

       shoot cancer into us.

Diesel fumes and second hand cigarette smoke

      clog our lungs.

Organically grown vegetables are washed

       with poisonous water.

Our daily life is a walk through a minefield

      we planted for ourselves.

Everything we eat, breathe, drink,

         or touch is certain death.

We must live in constant fear.

We talk of our plight

       at every new danger report.

Only with the help

       of our friend and ally,

       the media,

       do we get through the day?

We rush out each morning and get 

       the paper to read

      the latest danger revelation.

We watch TV talk shows

         and read the magazines

         to know how to avoid these evil traps.

We know we should be even more afraid,

        but we have our friends,    

        those staunch folks of the media.

With their efforts we will survive forever -

        unless the media has sold out

        to the alliance

         and is trying to scare us to death.

       That would be a deadly plot. 

 Naw! That could never be.

 The real plot is so scary

       we will have to live

       forever in a plastic dome

       with clean everything.

Then we can expect them

      to stick a pin

      in our dome.

Only vigilance will save us.

So form a committee,

      make a list,

      sign petitions

      and vote for immortality.

       Let us defeat the evil cabal

       or like the University lab rats

        we will surely die.

 

Notes
Listening to talk radio in the car and watching Fox News I can't help thinking we are being controlled to a degree by the hysteria of conspiracy ideas. somehow saying it more often and louder seem to be the formula for success in efforts to make us all quake in our boots. The concept of being human is constantly being refined and being human has room for the crazies and fear mongers. I just don't have to quit laughing through my tears.