must be
my personal
dystopia

cannot believe
the human race
has gone
so insane

the world, the Universe,
a figment of
my dark solipsism

if I just
step through the mirror

will not see
birthrights abrogated
all wealth and power
nestling in
the sublimely evil
clutches of
card sharks, witches, con artists,

whose greed
enough to swallow the Cosmos
then, Oliver Twist-
like
ask for more