Stranger at the Door
Sept 22 2023
They said that the earth
was leaking deadly gas
through my basement floor.
That the sun's powerful rays
would scramble my DNA
and turn me monstrous.
That I'm swimming in a ubiquitous soup
of invisible pollution
from power lines
the microwave
my phone;
potent enough
to fry my brain,
over time
sedating me
into mind-controlled compliance.
Radon gas.
Cosmic rays.
Our own miracle technologies.
Little did I realize
it would be my own mistakes
that would do me in;
not electromagnetic rays,
but arrogance, and vanity
my failure to learn.
Thinking I know myself
when really, I don’t.
The universe
is not conspiring against me.
Rather, I am my worst enemy;
the stranger at the door
they warned us about.
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