humanity is a joke
jokes are like stories
stories needs a beginning, a middle, and an end
ends, as they say, justify the means
means, which ironically, often mean nothing at all
all that's left at the end are the punchlines
punchlines need an element of surprise
surprise, surprise, humanity broke the world
world's on fire, and some men just want to watch it burn
burn it down, light it up, turn the entire thing upside down
down we go, drowning in floods like never before
before we can even catch our breath
breathless we move through the dark fogs of our own making
making more along every path we take
take, take, take, and give back nothing
nothing else seems to make sense to us
us and everyone else too
too caught up in our own convenient consumerist crap
crap that will no doubt soon need to be replaced with new crap
crap 2.0, if you will
will anything change for us
us, isn't that what needs to change
change will come for us, whether we are ready for it or not
not to burst the bubble we're living in, but it will come
come deadly soon
soon, but not yet, that is the when
when Rome burns, what can Nero's guests do but eat
eat the rich while you still can
can the meat and store it too
too morbid, I know, but times are tough
tough choices come with them
them and us, us and them, we know these clubs - members only
only a pawn in their games
games we get played in, and only think we actually play
play the parts all the men and women do
do not ask why
why we burn our own stage
stage a silent protest, sign a petition
petition your way all the way to world peace
peace must be kept
kept at all costs
costs that could come down if you just outsourced the protests
protests are a misnomer, by the way, aren't they
they're hardly ever pro- anything, usually anti-something or the other
other than that, they're okay
okay, i digress, and this has gone on for too long
long as I left you with what I meant to say
say what you will, but i think this was fun
fun for me at least, i don't know about you
you know what, what the hell
hell's on earth, I might as well take what I can find
find if you can, before you stop reading this piece, one extra "the"
the "the" is fairly easy to spot, but I first thought of slipping in an extra "and"
and the "the" is a little extra, I knew it when I put it
it's okay, it's an inside joke just for me, and what if it isn't?
isn't that just-a-little-bit-extra what makes us human and gives us our humanity?
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