By
Scott Thomas Outlar
I Am Not Conquered
I do not live with guilt
for the sins
of my fathers
or your fathers
or the church
or the state
or any type
of politically correct system
that is trying
to overthrow
basic human commonsense
I am sworn as an enemy
unto every move made
by the servants
of divide-and-conquer
social engineering tacticians
who use sleek
Madison Avenue
Edward Bernays’
advertising gimmicks
to trigger neuron reflexes
in the unaware
comatose
dead asleep zombies
I am a sworn enemy
unto the masses of sheep
whose apathy and ignorance
helps to bring about
the goals set out
by the marketing madmen
who are herding the species
toward a collective
hive mind singularity
On Knowing When to Stop
If anything in life
ever went like it was meant to
the entire world
might fall apart at the seams
because it is chaos orchestrating order
behind the scenes
so it is not about being perfect,
it is just about being
really, really, really, really good
it is about
coming as close to perfect as possible
without going too far
and screwing it all up
Scott Thomas Outlar
Scott Thomas Outlar spends the hours flowing and fluxing with the tide of the Tao River while laughing at and/or weeping over the existential nature of life. His debut chapbook “A Black Wave Cometh” will be released in April through Dink Press. More of Scott’s work can be found at 17numa.wordpress.com.