You catch a glimpse of apocalypse

In the monthly emergency broadcast test.

A calm familiar male voice

Announcing martial law

To subdue riotous violence.

Suggestions of preparedness,

Less for good measure

More for occupying the mind,

And preserving civility.

Doom on Man's mind

Fares no good fortune.

Doom reveals to us our

Ineffectuality in "producing" for ourselves

A purpose.

This is the actual, and most damning

Apocalypse.

I say that a single minute of relaxation

And enjoyment of life

Is ten fold more valuable than

Any eight hour task of production.

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