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Love Inside the Matrix

by Ame Ai

I love you within the Matrix.
Sure, your liberal friends
know that I've been brainwashed.
Sure, my conspiracy theorist friends
know that you've been brainwashed.
Sure, my conservative parents
believe I've been brainwashed.

So, after a long day of propaganda,
let's clink our glasses
of Kool-Aid,
sit down with some soma,
pretend we're not some metaphorical Neo,
and watch fake news together,
forgetting about societal pressures
and economic classes.

For if I'm the average of my five best friends,
I hope they're all a combination of you
and God,
who might or might not
have brainwashed us.
And if I'm just a part of the capitalist problem,
then let's throw all care to the wind,
party like it's yet another end of the world,
and buy something good to eat
from Monsanto
and poison ourselves with slaughtered baby animals
in the privacy of our own home.

In a world of rage and injustice
about first world problems,
I think it's just
that I've calmed down long enough
to curl up under a fur blanket
and joke about idle things.
Let's be activists,
actively revolting by letting the world's
comments about our brainwashed love
roll off our backs.

12/14/2017

Posted on 12/14/2017
Copyright © 2024 Ame Ai

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by George Hoerner on 12/15/17 at 01:40 AM

Keep in mind, we also brainwash ourselves! We tend to read what supports those things we all ready believe! It takes so much more to 'not be' subjective than most of us understand.

Posted by John Herzog on 12/15/17 at 09:01 PM

This is incredible. I'm more or less in the same boat (or matrix, if you will) nowadays.

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