people, mostly all, by Herman Shorts | poems, essays, and short stories in Poeticous

Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

people, mostly all

people, mostly all

barely beyond apes,

cannot be trusted.

they are incapable

of caring

what the truth

of anything is,

the world being

so full of them

and so empty

of consciousness,

the normal state,

a confused collapse

in apathy is

big business

as usual.

(2013)

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