Making Light

Making light of every issue makes things murky 

and encourages foolishness 

We are a selfish species

Inexcusably ill-informed

Fundamentally unqualified to know what's best for us 

We keep deciding it's war for all 

War against ourselves 

Against our neighbors 

War for the motherland and founding fathers 

to fuck over foreigners

Shredding evil evidence 

Subjugating what's sacred 

So vain in our virtue it becomes our vice 

Getting high to feel alive when we die 

Rest brings recriminations 

We're on our feet and sleeping 

We're too catatonic to vet our journalists 

so we just complain that there's no difference 

There are many 

We just don't know 

Ready your fact sheet with its bullet points 

but we don't want to be shown 

It's so fucking funny isn't it 

Ignorance of injustice is so good for comedy 

At least we'll sit beside each other 

to laugh a while 

at every pillar that props us up toppling