Colonial Rule from Low Earth Orbit - poem

 Lawrence Hall

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Colonial Rule from Low Earth Orbit

 

Telling lies to the young is wrong

 

-Yevtushenko, “Lies”

 

Corporations and nations orbit the earth

Colonial rulers as satellites and drones

Enneagramming through our attic beams

Their mad, malevolent multi-wave streams

 

Ideas not our own – they coil and writhe

As sinister blue lights through days and nights

Device calling silently to device

In unheard hissings of infogoguery

 

We rattle our electronic chains about

And proclaim our freedom

                                                (as we are told)