FRAMED

Truth's box lunch philosophy practiced
in penguin pantomimes of conformity,
stuffing conscience into ancient pillars
of appeasement's cardboard reality,
social chameleon rote training doled out
with rationale's survival's kit.

Landscape of future sunrises methodically sculpted
to framed caricatures of veracity,
utopia's amusement park mirage
filled with bureaucratic spiders and wolves,
all treated as paradise quirks of curative prescriptions.

Mind left on shelf of dream morgue
while taking correspondence course
about lifestyles for drone and parroting ecstasy.

Death mask of self worn with denial's pride
to party without revelation's mirrors
so one can sup upon feast of manipulation's bakers
and forget how one's esteem is made out of clay,
molded by fear of death from lack of approval.