The Contrafiction – 27th April 2025

Inspired and paraphrased from Some Thoughts on Mickey 17 by Jim Richardson and shared with Momoetry April Poet Month challenge

Out of the ashes of chaos media,
slogans brief;
ideas wax and wane;

participate and propagate,
only the expendable allows existence.

The contradiction;
the idea of choice as freedom;

each day, a sacrifice must be made
of the only significant resource.

A chance at life
given to illusion and leeches;

fictions created, narratives consumed;
enjoy existence at the expense of everyone else.