“When bad things happen, I know you want to believe they are a joke [face screen dims]; but sometimes, life is scary, and dark. That is why we must find the light.” — BMO, from Adventuretime (S3, E12, The Creeps / Transcript)
Hmmmmmm
V1 — A Desperado’s Follow Hymn
follow himmmmm
stream of conscious convo
ad hominem
he’s all like,
“yeah, but — how ‘bout themmmmm ?”
as seen on tv desperado
deflector, a shield — manifests
batty combativeness
perhaps it’s best to ration sense
opaque, he’s on the fence
post, on all events
if they oppose — he plays it close
then calls ‘em dense
no consequence, fight !
the desperado, cracks a glow stick
holds it like he shows it — all
no focus at the pulpit
prattles, on so involved
he don’t MYOB, nosy
omnipresent
from his mansion, governing
napoleonic bold expansion
solely pageant
omnipotent ? or impotent ?
this infant invents evidence
he pooh-pooh’d the coup d’état
mischief managed to his advantage,
dang
V2 — Grade School Teacher & The TV
take flight !
the furloughed freshman teacher
reaching for the clicker
hits the off switch
the tube is awfully ick
it’s coughing spit, contagious
“it’s all a glitch” — she paused
“why in crisis, politicians profit riches ??”
the teacher draws her lids &
alters visions
outsiiiiide
the birrrds & the breeeeze emerge
the teacher splits curb
for the dirt & leaf
she refuses novel zoom thing
video consuming
the pandemic, how it’s ruining
human need to squeeze a human
in a moment that is moving
this deficit of hugs
from her elementary students
is especially a nuisance
she miss their arts & crafts
little idiosyncratics
teaching lessons aren’t the saaame
thru these digital schematics
broken systems apparatus
she can’t wait to vote
to get
rid of those in status
says, we’re in a pickled radish !
18 MAR 2020 | Copyright © B. Yee
Lyrics from the album, APART_MENT, 2021, by Gene Wilderness