20th Century Blues

Fire burns.
Ice is cold.

Can't tread water?

You're gonna drown.

What goes up

Likely comes down.

Film at eleven

With breaking news.

Select the network

For the bias it spews.

What's accepted true

Is what you choose.

More and more

There's less agree.

Nature's laws?

Organic decree?

Laughter is pain

Is snark ennui.

Anti-Trumpers.

Anti-vaxers.

Oxycontin's

A sure relaxer.

Wrong or right:

Screw facts, sir.

Some see a crook.

Others a villain.

Some see a moron

Who'll sanction killing.

A sea of idiots

Totally willing.

It's not that

We can't see

Or discern.

We know fire

Is hot, and that

It will burn.

Or do we?

Hard to say

If we have

A shared real.

It's so 20th century

To have

Sense in Common.