THE AGE OF CORRECTNESS

Children of the future age,

Reading this indignant page,

Know that in a former time,

To tell the truth was made a crime!

I looked up at
The second hand clicking
"It's as late as it's ever been",
I said silently, yet loud.
I looked in at
My heart pounding.

Data monsters

                            Teeth of light

Devour us with terror bytes

Pushed and pulled by Sirens’ voices

Sinking in a sea of choices

From Washington to Wall Street, from Silicon Valley to Hollywood, from Brooklyn to Seattle, from Cambridge to Berkeley, from Madison to Austin, From Rome to London, from Athens to Berlin, an IRONIC CURTAIN has descended in the West, endarkening the enlightenment, blacking out history, and casting a deep shadow of tragic hipness that robs our civilization of the will to live and puts us on the path to artisanal suicide.