Michael F. Nyiri: 2004: "Disaster:A Reality Show"

January 16th, 2004 7:29 p.m. pst
poetry by Michael F. Nyiri

"Disaster: A Reality Show"

Arcane Wisdom heralded doom,
Falling into pits of hellish random violence
Burning flesh and retribution reach.
Man didn't learn though.
Arcane wisdom failed to teach
Him, and dark ages fell
Even spiritual redemption failed to tell
Him what he always knew but never realized.
He survived countless wars, 
If he didn't get himself killed
He dominated the earth, and collected the prize
The cost was too much,
Religion, Trade,
Wars and Technology
Caused much pain in the end, not to man but 
To Mother Earth
Now News shows tell us night and day
Someone shot somebody else
Somebody blew themselves up in a bus station
Mad Cows are everywhere
The terror alert is on orange
The killer bees are coming
Nothing we eat is safe
The ozone layer is almost gone
The plankton are dying and the seas are rising
The eskimos are dying of radiation poisoning
And we're all going to die
As usual