watching re-runs of collegiate football,
browsing facebook on his smartphone,
welcome to the real
shit

entities across the millennia, by and by
hardship, hardened, by the hordes
welcome to the real-
ness

bringing us to this instance all that
is thing of all that is squalor of culture,
welcome to the spir-
it

fill da cup
chug it down,
welcome to the con-
fess

annual rites and rituals
were performed before us
that we may live
though now that the vibrant
is shackled, we forget to give,
this cycle of humanity has ended
harvested, eaten through, thrown up
and we are cursed thus