Living lives of drama & illusion

The modern ulysses never leaves home

Traveling instead via cell phone

Exploring the Aegean on social media

Being fed the scripts

The titillating video clips

That constitute intellectual content

That guide them to celebrity culture

Which leads to a purchase of some sort

Followed by associated commercial enterprises

Some, illegitimate, many inept

Then the world fades away

In a protracted & controlled way

In which all the purchases are tracked -

All subject to A.I. analysis & exploitation -

And the individuals actions are predicted

The body dies, the purchases go on

The data used ignores the death

The cards get debited

The estate is taxed

The land is state regulated

The ashes go up in the breeze

Sanctuary is complete

We near the barking

Dogs of war.

Howling in Russia

Growling in Gaza

Congress watches ten million immigrants

Walk in without identification

Then refuses to allow a president

To remove illegal immigrants

Even those who are criminals

By using federal judges as roadblocks