THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GLARE

It’s more like a stare,
pierced through the midway
of the last hundred years.
Carved by capitalism’s ventures, gains,
and profit shares,
the turning point - a fatal wound,
where entrenched stereotypes persist and divide,
mangled postmodern remnants of the American dream.

Pulsed aftershocks are ugly and blind,
complacent to a fault,
in questioned morality
refurbished by nightmares
swirling on suspicious times,
minus convention,
tradition
and commitment to anything
beyond the last hurrah,
of the 2oth century glare.