bread and circuses (day 1)

Bread and circuses

From Wikipedia

"Bread and circuses" has come to be a derogatory phrase that can criticize either government policies to pacify the citizenry, or the shallow, decadent desires of that same citizenry. In both cases, it refers to low-cost, low-quality, high-availability food and entertainment that have become the sole concern of the People, to the exclusion of matters that some consider more important: e.g. the Arts, public works projects, human rights, or democracy itself. The phrase is commonly used to refer to short-term government palliatives offered in place of a solution for significant, long-term problems.

circus and bread

what’s it all worth
what’s it all about
what can be done to wake us up
to inspire some rage
some angst
some doubt

restrain yourself and wait around
for the baker’s bread and circus clowns

distracted, destroyed
by our own free will
the empirical imperial
we come
they cry
they beg
we steal

this is us
reality
this is us
it is real

this is america

where everyone
is blue or red
where progress
requires the dead
where words of life
are left unsaid
where a child could eat
but it’s diamonds instead
where eyes are so distracted
they fall out of our head
where dreaming is sadly
restricted to bed
where lies are eaten
by whomever is fed
where all we want
is our circus and bread