AMERICA

a poem by Whyt Pugh

Unrealized potentialities

evaporate in the fluorineflicker

of a synthetic sun

whoreshipped by the shopper

as it drowns the fragilenight

of annihilated archetypes

Corporate priests preside

over prophets predicting

the ebb and flow of thenotional

Mark it

with the barcoded stigmata

of progress

replacing

darkness and poetry and my

lie nation

Inc.onstant indemnity shunsthe

Other in this mass ofshattered

bone and muscle

must sell

must

cell (out)

of a collective prison

barred with chains ofrewritten

R^ottenN^ationalistA^merica

Mutate the membrane

to prevent the coiling of

constituents’chromosomatic choice

Hypo

might, ohChondria feeding

on Machiavellianmisogynistic

masochism

in the schism

We subverted signs

to undermine the authority

But poetic plurality was dis

solved by pandemic meaning,

momentary and untraceable

Etymological ephemerality

authored a single socialnarrative

idolized on glossy printsmass

produced to induce thediminishing

of thought

subsumed Instagra-

tifications of bite-sized

preruminated cognitions

Capitulating concepts to theGlow,

we download somatic suicide

as servants to the Screen

in the radical exclusion ofa center

we sought to underwrite

The walls of the capitolcastle have

been built with words wepayed for

preyed for

Multiplicity blind to thebind

of unprecedented semioticstability

achieved through thedeletion

of all signifieds

in unparalleled poetic

Iron Ne

gating dreams of difference

in 50 statescharacters or less

Tweeting micro-meanihi

listlessness

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