the truth seeps

Lies fly in your face and flit about to draw your gaze while truth is unassuming. You watch the lies, see them fly, see them dance and do pirouettes around the room while the truth seeps into the ground beneath your feet. The truth seeps and spreads underground beneath the cracking sidewalk and the heavy skyscraper and you don’t see it. You don’t see it you’re not paying attention all you see is acrobats and gymnasts twisting and turning and flitting and flying in your face and they make a buzz. They make a buzz and you like the buzz the buzz calms you the buzz tells you that there is nothing to worry about because everything is in control everything is in the hands of people who are Good and they always fight the Bad Guys and you know who the Bad Guys are because the TV box tells you who they are and if you don’t like the TV box you read the print media published by the same people who own the TV box and you tell yourself that this is more prudent because the words are written down in formal fashion instead of said aloud or, worse yet, posted as a dreaded meme. The memes, the memes, the memes are corrupting our youth and making them question the narrative put forth by the TV box and we can’t have that oh no no no we must have our show we must keep our buzz we must have our pirouettes and our flitting and our flying and our mental gymnastics that tell us everything is fine but the truth has seeped deep beneath our feet and the youth don’t care about flying lies anymore the youth are planted firmly in the ground and do you hear them? Do you hear them do you hear the things they say? How can they be allowed to say such things surely someone must be in charge of what things are allowed to be said surely we must do something about the youth and the things they say that we don’t like and surely they’ll never get tired of just saying things surely they’ll never move beyond that so we are safe and we watch our TV box.