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and again</p><p id="bd56">media stories, media spin everything owned by the same 1%, all of our activism making no dent.</p><p id="304b">Is it too late, we wonder and wait, the greedy and narcissistic take and take.</p><p id="0740">The planet burns, daily, nightly, and we sit, and we think, and we vote in this or that</p><p id="9e8f">our phones listening in, Alexa too, we have given up sacred spaces, and privacy too.</p><p id="491c">Forever online, forever hooked dystopia never had to sneak up on us -</p><p id="b6df">we did what they do in all of the books, we let it in, we gave it a seat,</p><p id="8ff1">we turned the other way we refused to look.</p><p id="5a37"><b><i>Jenny Justice</i></b><i> is a poet mom who longs to bring poetry to life in ways that spark empathy, connection, joy, and feeling. She loves writing<a href="https://psiloveyou.xyz/center-52927449220c"> love poems</a>, <a href="https://psiloveyou.xyz/love-in-the-time-of-climate-change-11a88bb642f4">climate change</a> awareness poems, <a href="https://readmedium.com/you-can-write-a-poem-c5663d17c48d?sk=50930fec528fcd31d3fc6dffe7b77407">poems for kids</a>, and of course,<a href="https://readmedium.com/your-voice-on-the-page-19ab8993ed8e"> poems about poetry </a>and <a href="https://readmedium.com/poets-d838a8bc5e25">poets</a>. You can follow her on <a href="https://medium.com/@jennyjustice">Medium</a> and at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jennyjus

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Dystopia

A Poem

It was a place we knew was more real than here because it was here, just exposed

it was here, now, just bare bones people thought it was a scary movie, a horror book, a nightmare idea

but, it is here, it is here, it is here stories in media shared and applauded

heart strings pulled with emojis of hearts reacting

A homeless man feeding cats before he feeds himself, love. A woman invents glasses that glow if their contents are drugged, love. A mother gives birth in an uber, she’s also driving the uber, she doesn’t stop working, love.

These are not feelgood, these are not happy. These are stories of capitalist fascism, and very very crappy .

We thought dystopia would look darker, or that maybe it would have a big sign — we did not know it was here, all the time —

policies that give to the rich and the corporate, policies that take from the poor

corruption that gets away with it all again and again

media stories, media spin everything owned by the same 1%, all of our activism making no dent.

Is it too late, we wonder and wait, the greedy and narcissistic take and take.

The planet burns, daily, nightly, and we sit, and we think, and we vote in this or that

our phones listening in, Alexa too, we have given up sacred spaces, and privacy too.

Forever online, forever hooked dystopia never had to sneak up on us -

we did what they do in all of the books, we let it in, we gave it a seat,

we turned the other way we refused to look.

Jenny Justice is a poet mom who longs to bring poetry to life in ways that spark empathy, connection, joy, and feeling. She loves writing love poems, climate change awareness poems, poems for kids, and of course, poems about poetry and poets. You can follow her on Medium and at Jenny Justice, Writer and support her poetry at Justice Poetic. Sign up for her poem a week newsletter here.