Money From Anger, The New Phallus

Ian McCleary 1992 (Morris Plains, NJ)



Call it apathy or indifference, but if averting my eyes from the nations politics, has made me a better person for it, I will continue that way.
Fighting over who has this country,
 has filled people's brains ( who watch these tv programs)
 with blood like the erectile tissue found in their penis. Confirmation bias keeps them
in this cycle of behavior.
Their anger attains a type of sexual climax.
So that signs of conflict add to their  pleasure, even when they know it isn't good for them. After they plateau, things take on a different nature, and they end up feeling more anxious over their lives than before.
How sad when people make careers from the abuse of people's emotions.
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Ian McCleary

I am a thirty year old poet from New Jersey. I write observational poems and poems on the state of human creativity and the power of human creativity that is undermined by the corporate structure of our society. more…

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