ENSNARED

We are now ensnared

in an anti-reality TV show

with no commercial breaks.

The scripts are written and edited

by a gang —

malignantly perverse child-people —

whose only talent is knowing

how to carve away

any hint of veracity and compassion

from the complexity of the human experience,

leaving just the sharp and brittle bones of hostility

scattered on the ground

for the emotionally malnourished

to claw at and collect.

Lamentable weapons of control

against the vulnerability of

the other

that they are not authorized to feel

in their very own selves.