---

Distorted shapes

Lines that define, divide, insulate

Inoculate forming thoughts

Follow the script

Do not break character

Avoiding the reality we do not understand

Dehumanize fellow man

Prison we built on our own

Fragmented, painted red

Echoed reverb in a poisoned head

Relinquish agency

Abandon all thoughts of empathy

A fool's paradise

Castle in the sky

Finding peace inside each Holodeck

Hold so close a plastic rose

Venom drips from those lips painted white

Algorithms filter twisted words of killers into truth

Automated zeitgeist

Empathy sacrificed for your pride