the next conspiracy theory
so much for the twenty-first century
already dead & gone in so
many amazing minds
what at first promised
wine & roses & endless opportunity
quickly spiraled
in slow motion fashion like an
unmanned tunnel boring machine
some fools are following right along
believing their journey
to the center of the earth
will magically alter the course
of human events
august two thousand twenty-one
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