Let's workshop this poem about a Cheeto-finger gamer trafficking in fringe visions of reality, too obsessed with guru status--and too quick to attribute pushback to persecution--for critical thought
Carl Sagan’s Nightmare
Unfalsifiable in his mind
(despite lacking proofs
from failsafe axioms),
he knew his woo
that ghosts goose
cat chakras would never
blaze beyond
Mom’s cellar of Dew empties:
“Science shills,” he told
his RPG mic (futon
kitty-litter fusty),
“can’t stand us redpills!”
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)