for Matt
First it was a smirk
a glint in the eye
a giant leap
toward the sky.
They called it progress
and forgot to produce
the thing that made
them want to produce.
They said 'a bird can
fly, so why can't a fly
bird?' It was absurd
to the men in white
coats. Had progress
begun to then induce
the very thing
it wanted to produce?
Progress produced
what progress produces.
The sleeping masses.
The obedient classes.
Planes, trains and car crashes.
And so it all collapses.
It's all redacted.
Re-set and erased
mass population malaise;
to cradle us slaves.