Alienation

How dare we live in the now
please tell me how
anybody with a sane mind
can digest the news of this kind?

War and hate and human folly
Riding on this jolly trolley
I want to get off, get away
to hide and concentrate every day
on art, on music, bury myself
in the library's great book shelf.

To return to the beauty of creation
disconnected from our situation
is to give up and comply
to this world's anti-symmetry.

Defeatist behavior is drowsing
alienation - anti-rousing
the earth will become our tomb
the alphabet spells our doom.