Eight poems on structures that shape us and the beliefs that sustain them.
Systems do not examine themselves
They don’t question. They just function
When in doubt (if a System can doubt itself)
They lean into what they know
So it was and always so
Enshrined via cultural norms
Language and institutional memory
Deviation is dangerous
Systems are risk-averse
To those standing on the outside, questioning
Thinking they can come in and change things
You’re up against policies, incentives
And traditional best practices
Systems assimilate
Be prepared
Onboarding
Over and over and over
Failing fast at long-term planning
Vision started improvising
Who needs strategy, values, and a mission?
Didn’t they say improv fuels innovation?
Aren’t mistakes branded as iterations?
I’m gonna make a course
Call it The Art of Extemporization
Invite people to the full experience
A mountain retreat, at 10k a piece
No one will question my knowledge
I’m a CEO! With an almighty MBA
I’m a startup/tech bro, yo
That’s all you need to know
Repeated failure isn’t failing. It’s Trailblazing
It’s Disruption at the Speed of Infinite Velocity
It’s Unicorn Pivot Scaling Synergy
You lack the intelligence to know what I mean
All have envied my genius since I was thirteen
Take the course — Punch up to my level
I’ll teach you how to make millions
With buzzwords and caffeine
How to sell leadership
And outwork everyone, even after you’re dead
As for my real life — Everything’s in control
On track to scale. I just need more time
(and money) to land on my head
(In the Broverse, it’s all in reverse)
Improv is a curse! (that makes it a blessing in reverse)
Wisdom that Isn’t Wise
Like Robber Barons of yesteryear
Silicon Sultans prevail
Gaslit by the gig economy
Nothing left but inequality
Hang onto that insecure thread
Work Precariats! Until you’re dead
In the broligarchy of crony capitalism
We widen the social schism
Rapaciously robbing from the poor
Retirement? No more
The Second Gilded Age
Abstain from temperance
Be gluttonous
Lust after success
Steal
Cheat
Pridefully repeat
Treat theft
As a self-serving charity
Lie when it serves
Be prudent with your words
Rationalize the truth
Make greed a food group
Code of Conduct
Up at two AM
Insomnia strikes again
Listening to the AC
I think about humanity
Skeptical of our civility
With shepherds and dogs asleep
I try to count sheep
But wolves make it impossible
As I watch them fall off the cliff
I feel responsible
Sheep Wreck (Flock First)
And yes, let’s compare suffering
Crown the supreme victims
Let’s dwell on ideologies
Holy righteousness and retribution too
And yes, let’s do some bible reading
Cherry-pick sections to justify interventions
Yes, let’s sacralize grievances
Forge our collective identity
With ultimate moral authority
The sensibility of:
Righteous indignation
Negative identity — requiring an enemy
Criticism as blasphemy, betrayal or treason
Yes!
Eye for eye
Don’t turn the cheek
Open wide
Use all your teeth
Bite down
Generations deep
Egregore
We lamprophonize systems
With our natural permanence
Epochs of upholding civilizations
Observing from a distance
We persist, after your existence
In addition to
War, deprivation
Abandonment
Our seeds carry
Biochemical memories
We endure without cultivation
Lacking manifestations of
Greed, dominance
Self-importance
The Wildflowers Speak
body
as a
Sacred
Temporary
Vessel
vs
container
a garment
covering the
True Self
We travel
what were We
before hearing a heartbeat
being born (Starwrought)
receiving skin-to-skin warmth
given a name and familial identity
along with unspoken expectations
swaddled in
Cultural and Historical Baggage
body as Vessel
vs container
We travel
through time and form
what are We
after the body dies
Human
before arriving, you did not know me
between arrival and departure
do not tether your knowing to form
instead
sense my Echo
and you will always
recognize me
body as Vessel
vs container
We travel through
time, dimension and form
as
Astrogenic DNA
We travel
Quarks
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