Limited Hangouts
Poem (audio)
Musing on the definition of “limited hangout”
Nowadays they’re
big, bothersome bugaboos—
well, they’re worse than these.
But not long ago,
“limited hangouts” meant just,
nice ways of leisure.
You know… jacuzzi,
wet walk-up or dive bars,
spas, airport lounges,
the malls, the movies
the arcades, amusement parks
the lake, Lover’s lane…
Now, they’re principally
dangled diversion tactics
delaying the truth.
They’re elaborate
complex spy operations
Spy-ops, if you will,
constructed to crush
our beautiful wondrous minds
to toy, torture us.
We are diverted
fully to a partial show
with false projection.
Limited hangouts
are sold so hard to us— and
we keep getting got.
But we better stop
letting our evil betters
get… the best of us!
That’s it “we keep getting got!”