Jive 45 - Celebrity, Not Glory, Wins The Land Poem by Warren Falcon

Jive 45 - Celebrity, Not Glory, Wins The Land



'Martin Heidegger was right in holding that, in contemporary life, celebrity, which almost never has anything to do with heroic deeds, has eclipsed true glory. In the United States, mediocre clever people like Donald Trump or Ronald Reagan, who do evil and often support evil, bask in celebrity. Intimate sordid details of their banal and often bizarre lives help sell newspapers and television programs. When the unbridled veneration of celebrity reigns unchallenged, as is quite common in the United States and in all other Western democracies, stupidity has triumphed. Thinking has vanished, as has wisdom.'
- from Fighting Evil: Unsung Heroes in the Novels of Graham Greene



Now the trash has come to the surface,
the Behemoth floats bloats to rot across
the land, crosses dying oceans, a vision
even seabirds refuse to scavenge

the trash has been surfacing for a century
or more but now the great swollen corpse
zombie no longer slouches toward any Bethlehem,
not even the steel town, but crouches over
a remote an I-phone, twittering at 3 am to
the nation and the world, and thinking has
vanished, as has wisdom. The shallow win.

Captain Kirk. He dead.

Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: apocalypse
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