We the People

by Julian Harned

 

We the People

 

Gravity seated lumps of coal ducking below opaque screens

poisoning neurons with dirty bombs–

manufactured truths spit through fiber optic umbilical cords of the soulless petri dish

 

Hive dwellers

opiated by vision

blanketing the central and fourth dimension

 

A date rape drug conspiracy by the masters of evolution

to steal the invisible absinthe from the parched-lipped silent world stuck

on hamster wheels of fortune

 

Visionary warlords on skyscrapers flicking breadcrumbs

to pigeon-headed family values shallow-skulled wannabe hedonists

who can’t get laid or can’t do anything else

 

Tree holocausts thrown to make conference space for arbitrary characters printed in

quantities conducive to chaos theory

heralding horseshit opinions of nonsense artisans

 

We the People

 

Molecule-altering avatars of triviality almost incapable of thought unhindered

by education, trends, weather, senses, blinders

 

Cloth-hidden, wasted instruments of brahman running around like headless chickens

for riches

and plastic relationships doomed by inescapable individuality

 

We the People

 

Inert vessels, information-efficient drones yoked with their own sense of cleverness

cod-chewing white knuckled one-lining knock-knocking zinger hurling one-upping

messengers of irrelevant garbage

biting asses like gadflies painted in pig’s lipstick

 

When will I see past my eyes?

 

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Julian Harned

(June 2, 1989–February 27, 2012)  grew up in Berkeley and began attending Berkeley City College when he was sixteen.  He loved wordplay and jokes, philosophy, psychology, religion (although he was agnostic) electronic gaming, random online research, sword fighting and poetry. He had been accepted to transfer to U. C Santa Cruz to study psychology. His subtly ironic and mischievous smile echoed his deeply ironic and politically/psychologically incisive poetry, some of which appeared in Milvia Street 2009.  His humor and insight touched many lives BCC students during his way-too-short earthwalk.

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