BRUCE BENNET

HERE, BUT ALONE

I can't think.
I'm confused.
The emptiness of
My social interactions
Stands screaming
In my mind
Like a banshee,
A prophetic omen
Of doom...perhaps,
The death of
Empathy?
My trembling hands
A symptom
Of the tingling anxiety,
The haunting electricity,
(The urge to vomit
I'm restraining)
Always flooding
All over me.
I wish, I wish
I could runaway
And hide from this...
This fear?
This dread?
Anger?
So confusing...
Why can't anybody
See, feel my
Pain? I could
Lie crying for
Hours alone
And nobody would
Ever know.
What's wrong with me?
I can't think.
I can't hear.
Can't think.
Can't see.
The world is
Becoming
Only noise
To me.
Oh, please,
Whisper something
Kind to me...
Something warm...
Something true...
I'm so confused.
 DEMOCRACY ABUSED

Pretentious politicians
Preaching clap-trap
Promises woven
In alibis sick,
Demented lechers,
Hedonistic desceptors,
And salivating parasites
Pitting us
(The beautiful people)
Against one another
With their hypocritical
War cries, their horrors
Of manipulation
Bringing tears
To my infected
Mind--DEMOCRACY'S DISGRACE!
CNN and FOX News,
Opinionated conspirators
Giving me
The fucking blues
Their saber rattling
Talking heads
Bobbling, bla bla bla
Babbling half-truths:
Far left, far right--
Equally wrong...
FUCK YOU!
WHO FUCKING CARES?
SHUT THE FUCK UP!
It's over the top
Already. You're
Driving me nuts.