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a docile transference

bottled rage for injustice

sold in pamphlets and thirty-second spots

flows diverted to pacify passion

myopic horror, the demand for absolution

guilt begets anger, blame begets exhaustion begets excuses

framed action and images, an archival motion

the vain allure of life unstained

smug carts and cabinets to shift the view away

renewed plastic conviction, taken to the edge of comfort and not a step beyond

repeating refrains of jingled melodies to program the gray