Blips in the Arena

In this senseless
endless war
where strangers
from every corner
of the connected globe
are locked
in a continuous text skirmish
that is combat politics
the days bleed together

Angry meme bombs are exchanged
fired off continuously
by the artillery of hyperbole

Matters not
if they hit the target
for in this war
friction engagement
is the thing

No glory will ever be found
in this cesspool conflict

No odes to brave heroes
will be penned one day

Here in the cyber shit abyss
clicks are bullets
measuring levels of distractions
from our real puppeteer enemy
pulling the strings
of us useful idiots

Forever too enraged
by the latest staged
contrived controversy
to bother noticing
how we are all being played