The Man Who Did Nothing

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The Man Who Did Nothing.


did the same as always.
it all sped up as he slowed down.
response time measured
in increments of media
transparency.

the truth became a weapon.
as life forms complex, complicate.
deivered content to stagger action.
or even contemplate.

the channel changed
as channels grew
and knew to spew
to paralyze who.

when the earth was melting
and rolling around,
he could not still the spin,
could not stop driving,
his life into the ground.

the sky was falling
with pencil tips loaded
with fuses and ruses
to wreak the weak
a havoc of fire
our descent descends  

(on our descendents)

the man who did nothing
stood looking, watching
as everything fell.

forwards. backwards. sideways.
up. down. around. still.

another one died
that had not lived.
made love, rainbows, chocolate
from sunken eyes.
and a swollen gut.

the man who did nothing
stood watching, holding
his unholy glut.

guns were ladled, pried
worshiped cold and gray
sent across dead oceans
and coral chlorined
coastline wrapped in
black mercury.

waved goodb...

jungles toppled
crashing, limping towards
extinction. moping and
groping as teeming life
ceased. options
decreased.

air toiled to breathe.
water drowned to quench.
earth sponged capacity.
fire washed itself.

the man who did nothing.
did no more than expected.
he could not see pain
nor hear cries. nor the others.
always, the others.

(what he did - did not.
what he recalled, forgot.
does he pray at the bottom
or reign at the top

can he start - when will he stop?)

sitting somewhere
sucking in with his dead pool eyes
as earth and woman said their goodbyes.
"...they know not what they do."

do too.

amused to death, played to fear.
anchors and webs, killers and wheat.
ratings and screen size, real estate.
gold, diamonds, oil, hate.
crosses, borders, butterfly wings,
small rocks hiding a beach.
viruses sucking out lungs, hearts
and things
pill makers murder pill takers.
cash register, registers and sings.

the man who did nothing
did nothing. displayed to him, it, the end,
was. as if. he could ever.

have done anything.
or ever tried.
to turn himself away
from exactly that.

long enough.
to be the man
who did something.
or anything.
at all.

did the same as always.
it all gave up as he slowed more.
response time measured
in increments of

survival.
and zeroes.