so we’re here to help you decide which 
sinister enterprise pulls everyone-but-yours’ strings

keep in mind that

having reasoned your way into paranoid conspiracy 
the progress-fetishist typically settles 
upon a mass-media-hypercapitalmarket- 
techno-dystopian kind of scenario, 

whereas those in favour of a glorious regression 
to an ever-shifting golden age are more inclined 
to revert to whatever mythopoeic flatulence 
comes bubbling up 
from a mind ravaged by unexamined repression 
and so tend to see demons, lizard-people, 
UFO’s, or your garden variety obscene religious apocalypse, 

where at least they meet in the middle, albeit 
in slightly different terms – that’s right, we’re all 
in this together, as they say: one man’s supreme 
corporate overlord is another’s holographic reptile-

keep that in mind.

From whence it came, along with the rest of us.