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Buzz

Can you honestly be as reliable as my toilet?
Or as accurate as a digital when determining winners?
How’s this for determining a better world?
A faster life and death count divided by 2.
Calculate this, o my bleeding heart:
one gun in the hands of Santa Claus
with a raging headache.

Anything can happen without restraints.
That’s why I’m here to offer you The Brainbuzzer!
Act out of order and it will inform you:
Feel greedy at the expense of the slightest life style
and it’ll knock you to your knees.
To rise again you’ll have to roll over and salute the sky.
Once up all sides will collapse about you
be they from bombastic orators or Priests of the Fifth Order.
An echo of sorts from subject to object.
And if you guess which is first down you go again.

Accept and be gone about your business
like a cockroach on its back.
But if you persist the ceiling will lower.
You will be off and running for a corner.
Stay there until the coast is clear and buzz until spoken to.
In due time the faint ridges of the brain will rise up
first in 2-D then in 3-D and many others as you see fit.
But remember you are not a map. Pass on.

The buzzer is off again and I didn’t do a damn thing!
Watch it! This is the beginning of the end!
May I speculate from here on?
With limitations.
Shut up!
Buzz

Published in Poetry