it is no secret
that the lot of us
are idiots,
and such is our
pedigree:

knowing exactly what's wrong with everything--
and somehow it's different everyday
as the figureheads babble, herding ignorance
to the topics of today

everything now is just
too vicarious, with the
god we trust having a
common hand shoved
up his unreproached ass,
the cosmic puppet meant
to draw you back
between commercial
break