Social Distancing

The thin veneer of respectability  
depends on pretend compatibility  
and outward conformity  
to the ruling tyranny  
 
and trying to act with integrity  
maintaining coherence of one’s core immutability  
soon leads to a confused reality  
of who’s the genuine deity  
 
since Love thy neighbour as part of thyself
is reduced to the politics of identity  
supported by scientific unreliability  
posing as white-coated authority  
 
marketing pick-n’-choose options of policy  
to respond to a matter of delicacy  
with insanity  
and huge variability  
 
whilst simultaneously  
rebranding the whole theatrical banality  
with designer-masks as the new normality  
eagerly adopted as statements of religious purity  
 
condoning the dismantling of democracy  
as perfectly acceptable given the messaged virility  
of a wannabe flu-bug in the ascendancy  
needing constant pumping-up by media dance-hammering tweak-ability  
 
and Hitlerian repeatability  
which underpins its fragile believability  
since a story’s longevity  
depends on mass manipulability  
 
where numbers suggest solidity  
as a barrage against those who question carefully  
the narrative’s veracity  
dismissing them as purveyors of conspiracy  
 
so, when next you go to a party  
dressed to kill your sterility  
choose a masked-ball as an opportunity  
to partner-dance with probity.