Main Event and Sideshow

Main Event and Sideshow

The first act was played.

The spectacle presented.

What was seen:

The cruelty remains.

Lessons go unlearned.

Obeisance and obedience overmaster.

Plans remained unspoken,

There are no plans.

There is retreat into conspiracy.

There was gutless deflection.

There endures evasion of fact.

The first act was predictable.

The spectacle was the disappointment

We’d hoped for.

But what of the sideshow?

Here too was the kowtow familiar.

Here again the distortions made absolute.

Here was introduced

A more sinister contrivance,

A specter of extermination,

A projection of internalized fantasy.

A sideshow more than distraction,

But a script for action

Taken against a phantasm

Hatched from desperation

And desire.

The first act was played,

And was not more than playtime.

The sideshow was a whisper

To be heard in the darkest corners.

Eyes open.

Cliff Lake 8/24/2023

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