Default Position (Poetry)

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it,
not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense” BUDDHA

The menu today’s
the usual crap
a mess of the same
mediocre pap
with sprinkles of lies

Some still think there’s choice
they swallow the words
their tastebuds kaput
can’t tell truth from turds
where small print applies

Junk-fed like dumb swine
old slops good enough
the thoughtless don’t care
but fight to the trough
don’t notice the sky’s

on fire — message writ
in burnt-jungle smoke
the oil’s running out
the oceans slow-choke
proof should open eyes

Except most consume
more boxfuls of tripe
switch off how to think
absorb empty hype
while common sense dies