Indigo Messages

Indigo messages
under the headlines
on the front page
suggest that these people
are doing all this
to get you.  You look for
their reptile signatures
in the shadows behind
public figures and
the subtext of their
platitudes, refusing to believe
they are human at heart
and incapable of long term
concerted action in the face of
their own greed and clumsy grasp
of the twists of fate.  In their hands
fate never twists at all
and they keep a sure grip on its path.
They must be in cahoots
with one another and their
mutual interests must coincide
with their desire to see us caged
or rotten.  You track them
from electronic safe houses,
small coffee shops, the corner of
your bedroom. It’s comforting
to have a place to focus
your concern when the world
is collapsing, when you are removed
from agency.  Having an agent to fear
makes the fear manageable, and as you post
your own indigo messages to others
who know the partial score you know,
you become one with the reptile overlords:
you’re the disloyal opposition,
the necessary distraction from chaos
and entropy,
as complicit in your own death and decay
as those you claim to despise.